Quotes About Nature

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

Nature did not make me willowy.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.