Quotes about nature
nature action mysterious
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. Charles Baudelaire
nature women natural
Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.
nature self voice
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
nature years taught
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it. Edith Sitwell
nature justice important
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. Earl Warren
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 prefer team tries
We've always been a team which, by it's very nature, never tries to draw. I prefer another style, our style, which is to always try to win.
nature strife
Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life. Ben Jonson
nature sleep night
The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity. William Shakespeare
nature starts
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning. Nicolas Roeg
nature art creating
I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.
nature mirrors
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
nature sparks hard
How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
nature eruption strange
Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
nature weakness sometimes
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
nature
Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending. Nicholas Culpeper
nature proud
We're so proud of the uncompromising nature of this rehabilitation.
nature men feminist
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture Camille Paglia
nature miracle want
I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles. Carl Jung
nature essence alive
Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.
nature people tree
The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.
nature confusion humanity
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable! Bertolt Brecht
nature passion doe
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. Bernard de Mandeville
nature unnatural
At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature. Carolyn Wells
nature stars awkward
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. Bindi Irwin
nature book believe
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters. Bernard of Clairvaux
nature woods fields
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.