Quotes About Nature

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!