Top 1200 Mother Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

In my little way I am trying to contribute to the Mother Nature by doing some terrace plantation.

Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature a good bit, of course, but a bit only in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.

I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.

My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She's a champion.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?

It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Everywhere you go, mother nature's throwing some curve-ball at you.

Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. If the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this m-therf—ker down!

Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.