Quotes About Nature

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

What else is nature but God?

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.