Nature Quotes

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

Meister Eckhart

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Herbert Read

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Harry Crews

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Werner Heisenberg

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature...

George Eliot

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Carrot Top

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Ben Stein

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Annie Leibovitz

Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

C.S. Lewis

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it

Michael Crichton, Speech, 2003

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

Tom Hiddleston

True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.

Blaise Pascal

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau

You can't just let nature run wild.

Walt Disney