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" Quotes and Sayings About nature

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Honour Nature
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It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Course Destination Distance Historical
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Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.

Intelligent Stole Material Desire
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Disease Danger Excitement Limb
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Revenge Justice Nature Law
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Children Gifts His Human
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Elusive Fleeting Gone Just
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Love Key Mystery Very
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Anxiety Infinite Leisure Moments
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Agent Another Break Government
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Bear Closest Eye Her
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Happiness Accident Nature Beautiful
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Appears Both Cannot Deep
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race Hate Human Nature
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Close Fail Love Nature
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Building Day Domain Every
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Been Body Call Ever
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Avoid Back Could Free
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What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Beign Days Down Each
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Everything Excess Nature Opposed
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Alone Both Cannot Concur
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Being Birth Bounds Capable
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Authors Blessed Chips Contrived
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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination Man Nature Over
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty Bliss Charming Colors
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Nature can do more than physicians.
More Nature Physicians Than
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
Few Lines Nature Sharp
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Articles Concerning Flood Grateful
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Acting Away Easily Human
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Actions Hidden Indifferent Man
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

Book Distinguished Elevate Gaze
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Broadcasting Every God Hour
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

About Books Carefully Fine
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Family Of Masterpieces Nature
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

Bones Cannot Certain Define
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Exact Greatness All Nature
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Change Great Law Most
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Creator Equity Governs Humanity
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Break Fact Laws Miracles
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Call Instrument Man Nature
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To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Attached Close Conceal Heart
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Beauties Changes Easy Every
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Appetites Conquered Human Nature
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Endowment Equal Liberty Men
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Active Defect Individual Likeness
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

According Nature Received Recipient
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