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Nature Quotes
"So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature."
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
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"Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured."
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"The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin."
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"In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature."
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"The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject."
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"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."
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"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."
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"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds."
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"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
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"My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself."
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"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
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"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
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"Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving."
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"No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do."
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"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
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"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."
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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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"Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature."
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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet."
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"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others."
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"Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?"
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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 you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."
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"I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature."
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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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"If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well."
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"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."
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"You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it."
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"I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals."
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"Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures."
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"Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us."
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"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
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