Nature Quotes

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

Iris Murdoch

NatureTimeJoyPeopleFlowersMad

The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.

Thiruvalluvar

NatureManLongWealthWillSize

You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.

Adria Arjona

WorkNatureLearningMomentDecision

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda

NatureSoulBlessedEgoBehavior

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

E. Stanley Jones

NatureSonGodRelationshipManYou

In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

Bjork

NatureOceanMountainsYouChoose

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

NatureForgivenessBraveKnowNever

As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

Victoria Osteen

NatureGoodWomenHappinessHappy

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

H. P. Lovecraft

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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

NatureManCrimeWillHimWicked

I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.

Adrienne Mayor

NaturePeopleLegendsMysterious

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

Orison Swett Marden

NatureGoodPowerReputationRoses

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.

Barry Sternlicht

NatureImpactUs

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

NatureGoodManLostTrueBeing

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

Lawrence Lessig

WorkNatureChangeRevolutionEnd

There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.

W. G. Sebald

NatureBeautyTruthCultureTravel

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Garrison Keillor

NatureCatsPetTeachEverythingUs

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Terence McKenna

NatureNovelty

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

NatureGodArtMasterMustAble

In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

Otto Loewi

NaturePurposeRelationshipsOthers

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

Bai Ling

NatureLiveTimePushYouBorn

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.

Bill Gurley

NatureTimeProblemTryingStronger

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

Jakob Bohme

NatureChildrenAngerWorldOut

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Wallace Stevens

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