Quotes About Nature

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . . Man's will is not free in that he is limited to his nature

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.