Quotes
Quotes about Nature
Love does not only transform our mental/emotional nature, it also involves the physical system of our body which goes through profound changes as well. -David McArthur.
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. -Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Hospitality should have no other nature than love.
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
