From Nature Quotes

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially. — Edgar Alwin Payne

But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal, — Rene Descartes

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries

I felt empowered by him, as if his very existence manipulated the balance of my nature from a shy little girl to wonder woman. — Kellie Thacker

Our rights come from nature and God, not government. — Paul Ryan

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city. — Mason Cooley

In the first place, you can't see anything from a car. — Ed Abbey

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death — C. G. Jung

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. — Emile Souvestre

Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. — Lao-Tzu

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care. — Mahatma Gandhi

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way. — Chris D'Lacey

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature. — Alice Hoffman

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. — Maurice Maeterlinck

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. — J. E. H. MacDonald

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. — James F. Cooper

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. — Vitruvius

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth. — Rolf Jacobsen

To find and enjoy profound happiness, learn from nature and emulate her stoic calmness. — Debasish Mridha

Man is a fugitive from nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. — Zora Neale Hurston

Nature is only wild to those who seperate themselves from her. — Raven Grimassi

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! — Zac Efron

A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God. — T. B. Joshua

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. — Chaim Potok

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him ... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature. — Laura Gilpin

It is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. — Mary Martha Sherwood

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri Rousseau

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me. — Steve Carell

Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age. — Masanobu Fukuoka

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it's never done. — Ernest Hemingway,

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — William Shakespeare

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature. — Christopher Paolini

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity. — Waverley Root

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel De Montaigne

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature. — Talib Kweli

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks. — Duane Michals

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair. — Gary Soto

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me. — Joyce Rachelle

By its very nature, the dark side invites rivalry and strife. This is the greatest strength of the Sith: it culls the weak from our order. — Drew Karpyshyn

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen. — Richard Louv

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. — Nicholas Sparks

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water — Karl Von Frisch

Our daily view change habit and give us the pleasure from the Nature. — Jan Jansen

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near. — Yosa Buson

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them. — Thomas Jefferson

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet. — Preston Cloud

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings. — Peter Singer

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. — Isaac Asimov

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter. — Benjamin Disraeli

God would be knowable as an infinite progression from ignorance into higher levels of knowledge and insight about the nature of self and reality. — Erik Lenderman

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity. — Paula Modersohn-Becker

The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment. — Billy Al Bengston

Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature, — Alex Epstein

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. — Michael Pollan

Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external. — Isaac Newton

The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth. — David Sobel

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent. — Mata Amritanandamayi

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi

Updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we're in the — Suzanne Collins

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness. — Samuel Johnson

Well, after the nature of any great hero from the stories, he was going to do his best to avoid this particular trial. — Brandon Sanderson

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. — Ovid

Gregory Bateson said, "The source of all our problems today comes from the gap between how we think and how nature works. — Anonymous

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals — Swami Vivekananda

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world. — Arnold Albert Van Ruler

I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.
Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.
It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past. — Toba Beta

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. — Daisaku Ikeda

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo

I marvelled about the nature of humanity, and how something as lovely as friendship could stem from something so hideous. — Wendy Higgins

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. — Richard P. Feynman

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher. — Tertullian

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better — Monty Don

Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness. — Steven Magee

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature. — Marcus Aurelius

Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean. — Erich Fromm

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. — Aleister Crowley

Take God from nature, nothing great is left. — Edward Young

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. — Mortimer J. Adler

Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make yourself whole again. — Farnoosh Brock

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. — John Muir

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. — Jean-Paul Sartre

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going — Tony Juniper

Fairness of face is a gift or curse from God. You cannot take credit for it. Your nature, intelligence, and behavior are the true measure of beauty. — Katy Madison

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people. — Anasazi Foundation

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. — Arthur Lismer

Law is born from despair of human nature. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — David Eagleman