Nature Quotes

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desiderius Erasmus

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Drew Endy

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is mor...

Dan Futterman

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures ...

Diane von Furstenberg

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Dian Fossey

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Donald Fagen

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

David Gerrold

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the cas...

Debbie Gibson

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Dennis Gabor

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

Domhnall Gleeson

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

David Gross

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

David Gross

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

David Gross

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

David Hare

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

David Hockney

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

David Hume

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

David Hume

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume