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Nature Quotes

It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway’s ‘A Moveable Feast’ and wanted to know more about her – who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.

– Paula McLain

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God’s eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

– Robert Schumann

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

– Princess Anne

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

– Olivia Thirlby

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.

– Paul Bloom

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I’ve seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don’t know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

– Regina Spektor

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

– Omar Bongo

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

– Robert Lanza

I’m an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I’m a worker by nature. I’m not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

– Rachael Taylor

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

– Ovid

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

– Robert Lanza

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

– Phillip Noyce

I’m a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

– Salma Hayek

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

– Otto Wallach

Perhaps I’m just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

– Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.

– Rudolf Steiner

So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?

– Ray Dalio

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it’s faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

– Rowan Atkinson

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

– Samuel Smiles

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn’t go too far out of the box.

– Robert Redford

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

– Oliver Goldsmith

Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I’ll have in New York. I’ll miss the trees!

– Reggie Jackson

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

– Richard Le Gallienne

Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.

– Rudolf Steiner

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it – I make this statement all the time: You can’t plan nature; you court her.

– Robert Irwin

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

– Radhanath Swami

It is the nature of the business that you work unsociable, unpredictable hours and can get called away at a moment’s notice to somewhere on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life.

– Richard McCabe

When you’re sitting in front of a screen, you’re not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.

– Richard Louv

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