Top 1200 Wonderful Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. . .

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads appear, so I will be writing for the rest of my life. The more books I write, the more books I find that I still have to write about. I use it like an inspiration, and that's wonderful.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.