Nature Quotations | Page 2

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.

Antibiotics vary greatly in their chemical nature, mode of action upon different organisms, and effect upon the animal body. The selective action of antibiotics upon bacteria and other microorganisms is known as the antibiotic spectrum. Some antibiotics are characterized by a very narrow spectrum, whereas others possess a wide range of activity.

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.

All views can't be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can't be the same.

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!

Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work.

The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.

People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

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

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.

I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

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

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

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

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.