Top 1200 Nature And Animals Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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

Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

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

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

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

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

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

I see myself as the God who will protect all of the animals that have no other way of voicing themselves. I am God, I see that, and I accept who I have become with open arms. All along I had no idea that those who will come to protect the animals and restore the balance won't be a God on a cloud, but us, this being, the being that I am!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.

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

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

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.

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.

I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm animals? It's hypocritical! Why protect one and violate the other when neither one wants or deserves the abuse? They just wish it would end. Stop praising the innocence in children then ignoring or making fun of the innocence in animals.

Animals are a huge part of my life, so yes, if you are going to be a part of my life, you would need to have the same love for animals. Howard is so great in that aspect and he truly is my partner. We have six resident cats - Walter, Apple, Leon Bear, Charlie Boy, Bella, and Yoda-and we have fostered over fifty kittens in the last year. He even lets the kittens play in his hair! They love it!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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