Nature Quotes

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.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.