Quotes About Nature

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.

Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

There ain't no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

As you love the Earth, so shall she love you.

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.