Quotes about nature
nature science world
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. Peter De Vries
nature interesting missing
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. Peggy Noonan
nature lying gay
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. Marlo Thomas
nature spring break-through
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.
nature kindness men
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Nicolas Chamfort
nature flower book
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that? Nikos Kazantzakis
nature thinking tasks
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.' Niels Bohr
nature real essence
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
nature thinking bird
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here. Morris West
nature color effort
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy. John Ruskin
nature cities littles
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
nature sea two
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
nature rain sunshine
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
nature men sky
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
nature sunset science
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
nature kids differences
Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference. Michael Gurian
nature men innocence
Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent. Mason Cooley
nature dirty men
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
nature gun power
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
nature ideas seems
Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.
nature way deviance
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.
nature enough fortune
If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
nature color delight
the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ... Mary Augusta Ward
nature men quality
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. Oscar Wilde
nature extinction
There is no place in nature for extinction. Lucretius
nature servant-of-god tree
He who plants a tree is a servant of God. Louis L'Amour
nature ocean tree
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. Michael Dolan
nature giving expectations
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it Michael Crichton
nature failing following
We cannot fail in following nature. Michel de Montaigne
nature rivers earth-day
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
nature habit
Habit is second nature.
nature kindness animal
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
nature law action
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.