Nature Quotes

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James McNeill Whistler

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Henry Peach Robinson

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Willard van Orman Quine

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

Werner Heisenberg

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

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

Garrison Keillor

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

August Strindberg

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

Mercy Otis Warren

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Theodore Robinson

All things are artificial, for nature is the Art of God.

Custom that is before all law, Nature that is above all art.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Margery Allingham

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Jacques Lipchitz

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

William S. Burroughs