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Nature Quotes
"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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"Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature."
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"And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man."
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"I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world's coasts the sea tides would be springing strong. The air itself also has lunar tides; I lay still. Could I feel in the air an invisible sweep and surge, and an answering knock in the lungs? Or could I feel the starlight? Every minute on a square mile of this land one ten thousandth of an ounce of starlight spatters to earth. What percentage of an ounce did that make on my eyes and cheeks and arms, tapping and nudging as particles, pulsing and stroking as waves?"
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"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."
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"Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not."
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"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."
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"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."
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"I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy."
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"When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it."
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"Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology."
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"Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation."
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"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
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"The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes."
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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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"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."
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"There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes."
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"My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature."
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"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
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"A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth."
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"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."
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"The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product."
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"The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey."
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"A rain like melting pillows a rain so beautifulI could neverhave let go ofif not certainthat someday...it would find its wayinto my poem."
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