Nature Quotes

As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.

~ Ishmael Beah

It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

~ Dick Van Dyke

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

~ Robert Burton

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

~ Bill Gates

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

~ Walter Lippmann

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

~ Daniel Kahneman

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

~ Scott Derrickson

The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.

~ John O. Brennan

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

~ Daniel Tammet

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

~ Livy

How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.

~ Louis B. Rosenberg

Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school.

~ Louis B. Rosenberg

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

~ Michael Scheuer

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

~ Stephen Cambone

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

~ James Clavell

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

~ Ray Dalio

Family, nature and health all go together.

~ Olivia Newton-John

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

~ Antoni Gaudí

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

~ Greg Lynn

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.

~ Simon Schama

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

~ Frei Otto

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

~ Paul Ryan

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.

~ Michael Frome

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

~ Samuel Smiles

I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

~ Russell Wilson

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

~ T. E. Lawrence

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

~ David Christian

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

~ Mechai Viravaidya

You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.

~ Adria Arjona

The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.

~ Rudolf Steiner

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

~ Leona Lewis

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

~ Saint Ignatius

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

~ Ezra Miller

Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

~ Jim Gaffigan

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

~ Ellen G. White