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Nature Quotes


"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."


"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."


"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."


"Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered."



"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."


"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold."


"Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this."



"The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture."


"And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically."


"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."


"Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. "I love the way it rains here, he told her. "It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal."


"Communism is in conflict with human nature."


"The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels."


"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."


"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"



"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."


"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."


"Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human."


"The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt."


"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"


"Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language."


"There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature."


"I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different."


"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."



"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
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