Top 1200 Changing Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's Middle East, where you have a different society, which itself is changing but much more slowly, where women are maltreated, are expected to have huge families, and are often basically beasts of burden. That is changing - with education, with the movement of people from the southeast to the west and the cities. As with so much in Turkey, you can't expect change to happen overnight.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost.

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don't learn to love nature.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature

Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.

When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.