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Quotes About Nature

When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
~ Tenzin Palmo
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.
~ Steve Dildarian
Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.
~ Stephen King
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
~ Walter Scott
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?
~ Shunryu Suzuki
The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.
~ John Medina
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
~ John Milton
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
~ Virchand Gandhi
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
~ William Wordsworth
Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development
~ Wangari Maathai
In the woods is perpetual youth.
~ John Muir
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
~ John Muir
Nature abhors the vacuum tube.
~ John R. Pierce
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
~ John Ruskin
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
~ John Ruskin
I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.
~ Vanessa Amorosi
THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.
~ William Carlos Williams
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.
~ John Locke
If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
~ John Stuart Mill
Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.
~ Jon Gordon
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
~ Jon Krakauer
... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
~ Walker Evans