Nature Quotes

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

~ Fay Weldon

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

~ Patty Duke

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

~ Louis Aragon

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

~ Stephen Sondheim

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

~ Henry James

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

~ James Cameron

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.

~ Camille Paglia

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

~ John Darnielle

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

~ Bodhidharma

The imagination is man's power over nature.

~ Wallace Stevens

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

~ Jacob Bronowski

No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

~ Bennet Omalu

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

~ Paul Cézanne

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

~ Robert Delaunay

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

~ Walt Whitman

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

~ Ephraim Mirvis

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

~ Sonakshi Sinha

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

~ Robert Redford

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

~ Satya Nadella

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

~ John Naisbitt

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

~ Laura Esquivel

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

~ Laura Esquivel

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

~ David Suzuki

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

~ Octavio Paz

The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.

~ Said Nursi

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

~ H. R. Mcmaster

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

~ Alan Kay

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

~ Vanilla Ice

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.

~ Orson Pratt

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

~ Henry Knox

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

~ Adam Weishaupt

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

~ Sam Yagan

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

~ Adrianne Palicki

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

~ Alfred Marshall

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.

~ John Marshall

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

~ Adam Weishaupt

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

~ Gregory Bateson