Top 1200 Changing Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

We need nature more than nature needs us.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone.

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature!

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?

We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

When you're in nature, inevitably your video is going to involve nature.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

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.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.