977 private quotes tagged nature

“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.” — Edward Hopper

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“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.” — Zora Neale Hurston

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“Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.” — George W. Bush

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“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” — Werner Heisenberg

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“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.” — Marquis de Sade

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“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.” — Marquis de Sade

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“Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.” — William C. Bryant

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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.” — George W. Bush

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“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

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“Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.” — Lewis Thomas

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“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.” — Alex Noble

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“Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.” — Bodhidharma

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“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.” — Edward Hopper

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“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.” — William Cowper

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“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.” — Jonathan Swift

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“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.” — Doug Coupland

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“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.” — Edward Hopper

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“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.” — Edward Hopper

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