Nature Quotes

"Nature is our chapel"

"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man"

"If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches"

Jane Jacobs, Sociologist

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul"

John Muir, Environmentalist

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"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, Artist

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

Mark Russell, Writer

"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, Scientist

"Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not"

Howard Thurman, Educator

"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God"

Euclid, Scientist

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature"

Harold Coffin

"All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light"

Wilkie Collins, Novelist

"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old"

James Loeb, Businessman

"I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody"

Florence E. Allen

"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people"

Tarja Halonen, Statesman

"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that"

John Prescott, Politician

"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, Celebrity

"Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse"

David Bailey, Photographer

"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you"

Alex Trebek, Entertainer

"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you"

Al Franken, Comedian

"I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook"

Jilly Cooper, Author

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

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature"

Robin Day, Journalist

"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit"

Sophocles, Author

Page 3 of 37