Nature Quotes (1673)

nature quotes in english

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book... view

By: Robert Bloomfield

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him... view

By: Ella R. Bloor

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings... view

By: Ella R. Bloor

I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?.. view

By: Vida Blue

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature... view

By: Bodhidharma

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools... view

By: Bodhidharma

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion... view

By: Bodhidharma

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature... view

By: Bodhidharma

Your nature is the Buddha... view

By: Bodhidharma

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial... view

By: Bodhidharma

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure... view

By: Bodhidharma

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature... view

By: Niels Bohr

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera... view

By: Janos Bolyai

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature... view

By: Omar Bongo

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own... view

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Art will never be able to exist without nature... view

By: Pierre Bonnard

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight... view

By: Daniel Boone

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought... view

By: Daniel Boone

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important... view

By: John Boorman

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls... view

By: Edwin Booth

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere... view

By: Robert Bork

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed... view

By: Walther Bothe

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature... view

By: Anthony Bourdain

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none... view

By: Christian Nestell Bovee

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them... view

By: Christian Nestell Bovee

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature... view

By: Malcolm Boyd

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic.. view

By: Andrew Coyle Bradley

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least... view

By: F. H. Bradley

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me... view

By: Billy Bragg

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence... view

By: David Brainerd

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away... view

By: Stewart Brand

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature... view

By: Hjalmar Branting

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead... view

By: Andre Braugher

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste... view

By: Berke Breathed

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well... view

By: Andre Breton

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature... view

By: David Brin

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony... view

By: Benjamin Britten

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears... view

By: Charles D. Broad

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature... view

By: Jacob Bronowski

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature.. view

By: Jacob Bronowski