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Nature Quotes
"The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only."
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"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
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"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
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"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
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"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
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"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it."
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"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
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"I blink January's lashesand gush down December's cheeks."
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"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."
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"The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin."
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"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
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"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."
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"The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology."
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"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."
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"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth."
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"If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that."
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"We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with."
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"Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man."
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"When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography."
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"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call 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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"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
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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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"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."
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"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."
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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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