Quotes About Change

Nature abhors a garden.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

There is no nature in an instant.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

After rain comes fair weather.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.