Nature Quotes

"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"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

"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries"

Jimmy Carter, President

"However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

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

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

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

Walter Bagehot, Author

"I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"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

"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Nature is our chapel"

Bjork, Musician

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"By nature, men love newfangledness"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

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

Harold Coffin

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

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer

"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

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

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches"

Jane Jacobs, Sociologist

"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

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

Al Franken, Comedian

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