Quotes About Nature

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.