1,011 Quotes Regarding Nature


There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
John Mayer

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
David Duchovny

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.
David Duchovny

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's just a part of our nature to hope.
Elizabeth Edwards

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Jacqueline Bisset

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Adam Weishaupt

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
Joni Mitchell

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.
Joni Mitchell

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
Ayelet Waldman

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
Joni Mitchell

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
Ayelet Waldman

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Graham Greene

Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
Ben Stein

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
H. P. Blavatsky