Nature Quotes

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jane Jacobs

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a com...

Jim Jarmusch

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Joan Jett

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

John Joly

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

Jack Kroll

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Jan Karon

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Johannes Kepler

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

John Keats

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

John P. Kotter

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Jon Krakauer

I'm an optimist by nature.

Jon Kyl

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Jack London

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Jacques Lacan

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Jacques Lipchitz

I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's ...

James Lafferty

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.

James Lafferty