All Quotes

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
‐‐ Pieter Zeeman

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
‐‐ Coco Chanel

Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.
‐‐ James Hong

Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

Nature has always been important to me. It has always been in my music.
‐‐ Bjork

Nature has always had more force than education.
‐‐ Voltaire

Nature has different times.
‐‐ Michael Tippett

Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
‐‐ Daniel Defoe

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
‐‐ Anatole France

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
‐‐ Jeremy Bentham

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
‐‐ Barry Schuler

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
‐‐ Bjork

Nature hates calculators.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
‐‐ Giraldus Cambrensis

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
‐‐ Quintilian

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
‐‐ Richard Smalley

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.
‐‐ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
‐‐ Johann Georg Hamann

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
‐‐ Henry Fuseli

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
‐‐ Eugene Delacroix

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.
‐‐ Said Nursi

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
‐‐ Catherine Opie

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.
‐‐ Paul Stamets

Nature is a petrified magic city.
‐‐ Novalis

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

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
‐‐ David Seabury

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.
‐‐ David Remnick

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
‐‐ John Muir

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
‐‐ Richard Le Gallienne

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
‐‐ Jacques Perrin

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
‐‐ Paul Klee

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.
‐‐ Jonas Gahr Store