Nature Quotes

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

~ Paul Davies

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

~ Lennart Meri

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

~ John Constable

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

~ Luther Burbank

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

~ Kim Cattrall

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

~ Camille Paglia

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

~ Giorgio Vasari

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

~ Dave Davies

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

~ Zhang Zhidong

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.

~ Ariel Sharon

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

~ John Bradshaw

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

~ Nina Easton

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

~ Randy Travis

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

~ Max Heindel

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

~ Leon Jouhaux

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

~ Carol P. Christ

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

~ Toni Servillo

The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.

~ Peter Abelard

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

~ Alison Owen

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

~ Saint Bernard

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

~ David Suchet

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

~ Paracelsus

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

~ Plato

Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.

~ James E. Faust

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

~ Harlan Stone

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

~ Zhuangzi

I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

~ Karl Pilkington

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

~ Carrie Brownstein

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

~ Terry Riley

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

~ Dorothy Thompson

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

~ Björk

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

~ Kate Capshaw

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

~ Maria Sharapova

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

~ Václav Havel

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

~ Lex Luger

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

~ Tara Brach

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

~ Joseph Butler

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

~ Oliver Goldsmith