Quotes About Nature

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.