Nature Quotes

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

~ William Law

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

~ Martin Chemnitz

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

~ Roberto Cavalli

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

~ Kenzo Tange

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

~ Mark Mckinnon

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

~ Stephen Hawking

Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.

~ Andy Serkis

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

~ Craig Venter

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

~ Tony Campolo

What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.

~ Joel Salatin

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

~ Richard Lamm

One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

~ Bre Pettis

Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.

~ Marc Ostrofsky

Families are not merely constructs of outdated convention, and traditional marriage laws were not based on animosity toward homosexuals. Rather, I believe that the traditional family structure - centered on a lawful union between one man and one woman - comports with nature and with our Judeo-Christian moral tradition.

~ Charles T. Canady

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

~ Alan King

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

~ Anthony Weiner

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

~ Rand Paul

It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

~ Sebastian Pinera

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

~ Larry Bird

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

~ Wayne Dyer

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

~ Andrew Cuomo

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

~ Richard Le Gallienne

The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

~ Denholm Elliott

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

~ Eduardo Paes

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

~ Hannah Arendt

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

~ Victor Hugo

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

~ Cote De Pablo

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

~ L. Wolfe Gilbert

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.

~ Annie Besant

My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

~ April Gornik

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

~ John Muir

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

~ Peter Beard

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

~ Mariel Hemingway

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

~ Liam Neeson

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

~ Lindsay Lohan

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

~ James Dean

I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld