Nature Quotes

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Jonas Mekas

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homos...

Jon Meacham

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Joyce Meyer

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Joyce Meyer

You are one of the forces of nature.

Jules Michelet

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

It's really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.

Joakim Noah

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of o...

John Naisbitt

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Jo Nesbo

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I st...

Jo Nesbo

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

Jake Owen

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

John Boyd Orr

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's t...

Judy Parfitt