Nature Quotes

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

~ Juvenal

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.

~ Maria Montessori

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

~ Sheryl Crow

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.

~ B. B. King

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

~ George A. Smith

Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

~ Malcolm X

A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.

~ Patti Stanger

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

~ Cyril Connolly

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.

~ Richard Thompson

I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.

~ Telly Savalas

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

~ Alan Turing

None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.

~ Randeep Hooda

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

~ Catherine Opie

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

~ Carrot Top

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

~ Andrew Stanton

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

~ B. B. King

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

~ William Hazlitt

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

~ Aristotle

It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.

~ Francois Nars

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

~ Octavio Paz

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

~ Andrew Motion

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

~ Francisco Goya

By nature, men love newfangledness.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

~ Gore Vidal

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

~ David Horsey

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

~ Alan Bleasdale

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

~ William Graham Sumner

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

~ Lucy Larcom

I like my home and I like the nature.

~ Billy Corgan

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

~ Thor Heyerdahl

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

~ Franz Kafka

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

~ John James Audubon

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

~ William Morris Hunt

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

~ Thomas Day

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

~ Herbert A. Simon

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

~ Thomas Friedman

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

~ Brian Greene

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

~ James Buchan