Famous Quotes
- All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
- Toni Morrison on Nature
- All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
- Marquis De Sade on Nature
- Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
- George Whitefield on Nature
- Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
- Joseph Smith, Jr. on Nature
- Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
- Camille Paglia on Nature
- Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Nature
- Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on Nature
- America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
- Jerry Garcia on Nature
- Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
- Stephen King on Nature
- An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
- John Ruskin on Nature
- An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
- Herbert Spencer on Nature
- An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
- Henri Matisse on Nature
- An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
- Washington Irving on Nature
- And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
- Adam Weishaupt on Nature
- And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Nature
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
- Thomas Moore on Nature
- And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare on Nature
- Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
- Larry Wilcox on Nature
- Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
- Primo Levi on Nature
- Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
- Paul Cezanne on Nature
- Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
- Corin Nemec on Nature
- Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
- Auguste Rodin on Nature
- Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
- Malcolm De Chazal on Nature
- 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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Nature
- Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Friedrich Schiller on Nature
- Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
- Dante Alighieri on Nature
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
- Victor Hugo on Nature
- As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on Nature
- As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
- Albrecht Durer on Nature
- As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
- Thomas Guthrie on Nature
- As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
- Lord Byron on Nature
- 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.
- David Suzuki on Nature
- 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.
- Thomas Aquinas on Nature
- As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
- Woody Allen on Nature
- Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
- Albert J. Nock on Nature
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus on Nature
- Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
- Christy Turlington on Nature
- Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
- Gilbert White on Nature
- Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
- Adolf Loos on Nature
- Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
- Langston Hughes on Nature
- Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
- Lindsay Lohan on Nature
- Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
- John Milton on Nature
- Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
- Camille Paglia on Nature
- Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- Fay Weldon on Nature
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Drew Barrymore on Nature
- Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
- Roger Tory Peterson on Nature
- Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
- Rose Kennedy on Nature
- Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
- Rudyard Kipling on Nature
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