Quotes About Nature

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

The sky is an enormous man.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.