Quotes About Nature

The man of genius in tune with nature will bend history to his will. (1920)

Alle, der ser og maler en grøn himmel og en blå kornmark, burde steriliseres.

Ero uno che a scuola imparava presto e bene ma che per il resto era assai riottoso... il genitore non sapeva apprezzare il talento oratorio del suo litigioso rampollo, e men che meno ne traeva conclusioni favorevoli circa il suo avvenire, neppure riusciva a comprendere quest'alto suo ideale giovanile. Molto preoccupato, egli osservava tale contrasto della natura del figliolo

The state is a community of living beings who have kindred physical and spiritual natures. It's organized for the purpose of assuring the preservation of their own kind, and to help towards fulfilling those ends assigned by providence. Therin, and therein alone, lay the purpose and meaning of a state.

The old beliefs will be brought back to honor again.... The whole secret knowledge of nature, of the divine, the demonic.... We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race.

La dottrina semita rifiuta il principio aristocratico della natura e pone al posto dell'eterno diritto della forze e della potenza, il numero col suo peso morto. Essa rinnega nell'uomo il valore della persona, mette in dubbio l'importanza del popolo e della razza, togliendo così all'umanità le premesse della sua conservazione e della sua cultura. Essa, se posta a base dell'universo, porterebbe alla fine in ogni ordine umano comprensibile alla ragione

H]igher government authorities knew little or nothing of the value and nature of propaganda. Only the Jew knew that, by an able and persistent use of propaganda, heaven itself can be presented as hell, and vice versa, the most miserable kind of life as paradise. Only he knew this, and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his government, hadn't the slightest idea of this... During the war, we paid the heaviest of penalties for this ignorance.

Het oude geloof zal weer in ere worden hersteld, de geheime kennis van de natuur, van het demonische. We zullen het christelijke vernis afwassen en een religie naar voren brengen die eigen is aan ons ras.

Su questa terra ci sono infinite estensioni ancora inutilizzate, e che aspettano di essere coltivate. Questi territori non sono stati tenuti in serbo dalla natura per certe razze, ma sono territori aperti ai popoli che possiedono la forza di conquistarli e la diligenza di coltivarli. La natura non conosce frontiere politiche: il più forte per coraggio e diligenza ottiene il diritto di signoria sulla vita

Genialidade verdadeiramente é sempre inata, nunca fruto de educação ou estudos.

If Nature doesn't wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, even less does she wish that a superior race should mix with an inferior one. In such a case, all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher type of being, might be rendered futile.

Here we meet an insolent pacifist objection, one that is Jewish in its inspiration: "Man can control even nature!" There are millions who mindlessly repeat this Jewish nonsense, and end up imagining that somehow they themselves are the conquerors of nature. Yet their only weapon is just a mere idea, and a very preposterous one at that. If one accepted it, then it would be impossible even to imagine the existence of the world.

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Just because I'm soulless doesn't mean I'm evil.

Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.

We live our lives far removed from the food chains that support us, sitting atop a trophic pyramid we never really become part of.

It was a thought which made me reflect that though civilised man has spent untold treasure on preserving ancient buildings and works of art fashioned by the hand of man, yet he destroys these creatures which typify the perfection of agelessw beauty and grace.

It was a thought which made me reflect that though civilised man has spent untold treasure on preserving ancient buildings and works of art fashioned by the hand of man, yet he destroys these creatures which typify the perfection of ageless beauty and grace.

A true predator sometimes kills even when it isn't hungry.

not continue any longer than is absolutely necessary, since justification for such intervention is found only in the exceptional nature of the situation.415

I couldn't see the ocean from my condo, but I could hear it, and the rhythm of the waves lapping at the shore made it seem like the world itself was breathing.

Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act