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Nature Quotes
"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
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"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."
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"Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity."
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"Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom."
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"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
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"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing."
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"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
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"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
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"Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind."
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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 are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
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"What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film."
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"Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature."
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"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
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"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
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"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce."
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"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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"Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant."
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"For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another."
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"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
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"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."
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"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
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"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places."
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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."
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"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."
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"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling."
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"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
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"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."
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"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
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"If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
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"The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface."
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