Nature Quotes

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability t…

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it …

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Hidden nature is secret God.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administr…

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of huma…

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

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious expla…

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent …

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

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.