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Nature Quotes
"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
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"I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm."
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"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another."
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"Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled."
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
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"Get close to grass and you'll see a star."
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"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
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"Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."
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"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."
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"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."
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"The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism."
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"String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect."
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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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"I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!"
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"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."
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"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated."
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"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."
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"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
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"The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay."
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"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."
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"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show."
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"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."
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"The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations."
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"The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency."
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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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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
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"My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent."
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"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."
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"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."
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"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."
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"The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature."
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"Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are stripped away, leaving a stark white landscape, a sky which stays black at night and gray in the day, a world of only three shades. Stay outside too long, and your hands will get so cold that they'll go numb and turn red, like the claws of a lobster. During a whiteout, even sight itself is reduced to nothingness."
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