Top 1200 Man And Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow the law, follow the natural course. Don't be unnatural, don't try to fight with nature - stop being a fighter. Learn how to relax with nature, learn to let go. Flow with nature, allow nature to possess you totally.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grapsed, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearnace as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.

Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.

The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.