Top 1200 Nature And Animals Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We need nature more than nature needs us.

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values.

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.

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.

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

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.

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

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

We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.

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.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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