Quotes About Nature

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Human beings are curious by nature.

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.