Quotes About Nature

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.