Quotes about nature
nature
And nature must obey necessity. William Shakespeare
nature sleep night
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
nature hands human-nature
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
nature wild-beauty tree
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
nature spring april
April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
nature looks needs
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends. David Hockney
nature art men
Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man. David Hume
nature mean men
Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.
nature philosophy imperfection
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.
nature men tree
A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. David Douglas
nature law firsts
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. Barry Commoner
nature zoos ocean
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson
nature believe recovery
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA. Dennis Cardoza
nature weakness humans
Amiable weaknesses of human nature. Edward Gibbon
nature men people
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress? Abraham Lincoln
nature
Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss. Sally Hawkins
nature somehow
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature. Richard P. Feynman
nature heart men
Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen. Albert Schweitzer
nature men society
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
nature philosophical animal
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
nature society thrust wants
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature. Ian Mckellen
nature law understanding
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and thesame in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules. Baruch Spinoza
nature philosophical environment
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
nature way steps
A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way. Barbara Sher
nature artist ugly
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature Auguste Rodin
nature eye giving
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
nature men aluminum-cans
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess. Art Buchwald
nature demand doe
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. Ayn Rand
nature civilization unnatural
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent Bertrand Russell
nature stronger
Nature is stronger than education. Benjamin Disraeli
nature moving cat
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Carl Sandburg
nature looks moral
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend. C. S. Lewis
nature air want-something
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.