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Quotes About Nature

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.
~ Renata Salecl
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
~ Saint Augustine
Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
~ Charles Churchill
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).
~ William J. Bernstein
Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
~ Kenneth Burke
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
~ Terence McKenna
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
~ Dalai Lama
Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.
~ Dalai Lama
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.
~ Robert Henri
Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
~ Martin Luther
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
~ Steve Nash
All of nature is God's art.
~ Dante Alighieri
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature
~ Daphne Zuniga
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
~ David Attenborough
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Those characters are forever searchingeven if we're not watching them, they're out there, in some dimension. Mulder and Scully are still doing their thing, because that's their nature.
~ David Duchovny
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
~ Philip Wylie
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
~ Susan Sontag