Quotes About Nature

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.