Top 1200 Study Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not. Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.

We need nature more than nature needs us.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

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

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

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

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved 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.

Study water. Try to grab a hold of water, and it will always elude you. You just have to let yourself be in it. It's soft, and it overcomes anything that's hard. Put the hardest substance - say, titanium - out there, and let water flow over it. Eventually, patiently, peacefully, the water will just wear it away. Also, water will enter anywhere - through any opening at all. So, let yourself be like that. God is in nature, everywhere and always. And we have so much to learn.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.

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

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

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

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

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

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

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of 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?

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

Much as there are things about our own life stories that we can learn only from the systematic study of our dreams, there are things about the human condition that we can learn only from a systematic study of literature.

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.

Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

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

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

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.

This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.

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

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

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.