Nature Quotes

There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.

~ Julie Klausner

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.

~ William Godwin

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

~ Louie Schwartzberg

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

~ Reza Aslan

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

~ Albert Camus

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

~ Neil Young

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

~ Abdolkarim Soroush

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

~ Godfrey Reggio

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

~ Ruth St. Denis

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

~ Garry Kasparov

My dream is to save women from nature.

~ Christian Dior

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

~ George William Curtis

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.

~ Phillip E. Johnson

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

~ Henry Kissinger

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

~ Mason Cooley

This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century.

~ Peter C. Doherty

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

~ Bibhu Mohapatra

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

~ Nacho Figueras

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

~ Hugh Jackman

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

~ George Whitefield

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

~ Barry Mann

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

~ Ralph Steadman

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

~ Denis Diderot

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

~ Giacomo Casanova

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

~ Jeff Greenfield

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

~ Nostradamus

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

~ Paul Kalanithi

I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.

~ Robert Crumb

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

~ Harriet Martineau

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

~ Trofim Lysenko

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

~ Cesar Millan

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.

~ James Gleick

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

~ Lili Taylor

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

~ Blaise Pascal

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

~ Stephen King

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

~ Penelope Cruz