Nature Quotes - page 4

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. (Thomas Malthus)
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. View quote
Bolesław Prus
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. View quote
Herbert Spencer
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. View quote
Cicero
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. View quote
Montesquieu
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. (Edmund Burke)
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
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. View quote
Karen Blixen
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. View quote
Garrison Keillor
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature. View quote
Henry Miller
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature. View quote
Philip Pullman
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. View quote
Edward Hopper