Top 1200 Nature Lover Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

I learned a lot about human nature. So much, in fact, that human nature will be my specialist subject on 'Mastermind'.

In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

Mother Nature give me a hell of a body. My parents or whatever. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Mother of nature... From Russia with love.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others call it truth. Still others convert nature into a philosophy by which they attempt to sound its deepest truth. Such attempts to define the power of nature are no more than striving to escape its effects.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.