Nature Quotes
Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun-you see how nature is indifferent to it all.
I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it.
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
The earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us. She deserves our care in return.
Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.
I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.
If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have...and the thing we've seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that's going to be our least favourite thing.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation, a being apart from the rest of nature. He was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalia.
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