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Nature Quotes

The groves were God’s first temples.

– William C. Bryant

Unlike us, machines do not have a ‘nature’ consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion – with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

– Tom Chatfield

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

– Wayne Dyer

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

– Walter Scott

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature’s essence.

– William Ernest Henley

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

– Vladimir Nabokov

People say that New Yorkers aren’t friendly, but I think they’re more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that’s not going to happen in the same way in London.

– Theo James

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers’ blood.

– Walter Kaufmann

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

– William Bartram

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesn’t teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

– Sherry Turkle

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

– Sidney Altman

And muse on Nature with a poet’s eye.

– Thomas Campbell

I usually don’t like to ‘spoon feed’ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

– The Weeknd

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that’s not something everyone can afford.

– Susan Cain

The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.

– Thiruvalluvar

Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.

– William Godwin

People want to know about what’s going on with what’s in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It’s a lot of curiosity out there.

– Sheldon Lee Glashow

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

– Terry Riley

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

– Theophrastus

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

– Washington Irving

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.

– Thomas H. Cook

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

– Sydney Pollack

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

– Vikram Seth

There’s one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that’s evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

– Tom Shadyac

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It’s hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

– Yehuda Berg

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

– Stephen Covey

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao’s sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

– Theodore Dalrymple

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

– Steven Pinker

Man is nature’s sole mistake.

– William Gilbert

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

– Thomas Hardy

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