Quotes About Nature

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.