Quotes About Nature

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.

There is no other reality than nature.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]