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Nature Quotes

I’m a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.

– Trent Franks

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

– Thomas Merton

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

– Victor Hugo

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

– Thomas Kuhn

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn’t happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

– Wadada Leo Smith

Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature – in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes – would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.

– Sam Kean

I’m optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it’s resilient, like people are.

– Viggo Mortensen

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It’s the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what’s the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

– Stephen Daldry

The imagination is man’s power over nature.

– Wallace Stevens

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

– Walter Rauschenbusch

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

– Wole Soyinka

I think women are by nature competitive – secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

– Victoria Pendleton

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

– Stephen Gardiner

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

– Thomas Sydenham

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody’s hand.

– Sally Mann

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

– Tina Brown

Nature’s a tranquilizer as you get older.

– Willard Scott

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

– Toni Morrison

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

– Sophocles

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

– Umberto Eco

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

– Tony Parsons

The nature of the beast is that film is a director’s medium. It’s not a Tracy Letts play, it’s a John Wells film. ‘August: Osage County,’ as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It’ll be performed in its entirety for years.

– Tracy Letts

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.

– Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It’s a very simple rule that nature operates under.

– Tom Shadyac

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

– Sidney Sheldon

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

– Walter Gilbert

I’m a big fan of ‘National Geographic’, the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn’t pan out.

– Tom Weston-Jones

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

– Tacitus

I’ve always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, ‘What are the chances of you staining my pans?’ I said, ‘I don’t think I understand the question…’ and she said, ‘When you cook your curries.’

– Sanjeev Bhaskar

‘Survivor’ was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.

– Thomas Schlamme

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