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Nature Quotes

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane.


Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract.


Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole. It is the merging force binding every element in existence into a perfect whole.


Procreation is nature's principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.


Nature has endowed the north of California with resources that will endure and flourish when Hollywood has disappeared into the prehistoric tar-pits of Wilshire Boulevard.


Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.


Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.


Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.


One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.


As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.


The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.


Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.


Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.


Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.


Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.


It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.


Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.


Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.


In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.


The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.