Nature Quotes - Page 101

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

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.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature