Nature Quotes

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

Isaac Rosenberg

I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.

Ira Sachs

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Irwin Winkler

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

James Allen

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

James F. Amos

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

Jeff Ament

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

John Adams

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

John James Audubon

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

John James Audubon

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.

John James Audubon

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Josef Albers

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Joseph Addison

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

Judith Anderson

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Jacob Bronowski