Top 1200 Nature Walk Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

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

I don't like being told that's where you, you know, if you walk on set and somebody was "okay, you're here and you're going to walk over there on this line." And my reaction is always how do you know? How do you know that's what I'm going to do? How do any of us know?

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.

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.

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

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

You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long theyd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear ... now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror.... I will walk where the failure fears to walk.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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'.

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

Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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