Quotes About Nature

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.