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Nature Quotes
"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains."
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"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed."
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"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies."
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"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."
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"We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming."
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"Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others."
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"In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature."
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"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."
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"I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else."
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"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."
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"In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people."
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"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
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"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."
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"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."
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"The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island."
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"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature."
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"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making."
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"I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea."
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"Fire's the sun, unwindin' itself out o' the wood."
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"If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees."
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"The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature."
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"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."
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"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated."
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"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts."
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"Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like."
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"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."
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"The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes."
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