Nature Quotes

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Andrew Cuomo

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Xun Zi

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Umberto Eco

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Ogden Stiers

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Edward Hopper

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Matt LeBlanc

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Edward Hopper

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Henry David Thoreau

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

Thomas Hobbes

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Paul Cezanne

The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.

Heisenberg

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Tim Burton

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

John Paul Jones

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon