N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nature and her animals bear witness to us, and we bear witness to each other, and this is how we transmit the trauma out of us… stitch by stitch to show God we’re still here, we’re paying attention, we can’t do it without their higher power, and without each other. A plea and a push, our participation. It’s all necessary.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Nature and Khap abhors Inbreeding. Following one is called progression while rejecting the other who implement nature laws in humans is called progressive”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
“Nature and nurture sway us. Our environment and genetic blood bank establish the delineating parameters that make us. Throughout life, many types of opposing forces tattoo us. Rationality and logic allow us to quantify our experiences. We erase many experiences through casual indifference or employ tremendous emotional energy to repress ugly remembrances. Our ability to invent and imagine imbues every person’s spiritual construction with a distinctive lining. Every person is a wee bit crazy; most of us embody a tad of manic forces coursing within us. How these discordant elements of rationality and madness crystalize and fuse together or rebel against each other in the human mind is the mysterious paradox, the prototypical riddle wrapped in an enigma.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom.”
Source: The Enchafèd Flood: or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea
“Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.”
Source: Literature and life, lects
“Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.”
“Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our prophecies said would come. Why do animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds were destroyed.”
“Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes."”
“Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.”
Source: Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].
“Nature and wisdom always say the same.”
“Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.”
“Nature and wisdom never are at strife.”
“Nature answers every question.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.”
“Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Nature appears to take pleasure in playing games with humans, overwhelming them with torrential rains one year, only to subject them to scorching heatwaves the next!”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Nature as a Monet
No money can buy.
An inspiring portrait,
Art that fills the eye!”
Source: "Geometry Of Designs" by Ana Bowlova
“Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.”
Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays
“Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.”
“Nature, as we remarked recently, having supplied women with a temper more ardent, with a sensibility more profound, than she awarded persons of the other sex, it is unquestionably for women that the marital contract proves more onerous.”
Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir
“Nature at the middle distance is familiar - so familiar that we are deluded into believing that we really know what it is all about. See very close at hand, or at a great distance, or from an odd angle, it seems disquietingly strange, wonderful beyond all comprehension.”
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“Nature attains perfection, but man never does.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nature battles against us sometimes, and it can be hard. Our souls seek a soul mate and our bodies seek to procreate. You need to be wise and self controlled and not put yourself in a place where nature might overcome your commonsense.”
Source: Arousing Love, a teen novel - First Three Chapters
“Nature becomes the temple of the soul!”
“Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann
“Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return”
“Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?”
“Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.”
“Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
“Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don't need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as "the fairer sex". But in the wild, the female species can be far more ferocious than their male counterparts. Defending the nest is both our oldest and strongest instinct. And sometimes, it can also be the most gratifying.”
“Nature can be frightening enough,
why do we humans have to mess with her?”
“Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.”
Source: Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran
“Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.”
Source: The Complete Training of Horse and Rider
“Nature can help us understand health crises, where they come from,
and how the socioeconomic fallout from such disasters
can be mitigated.”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.”
“Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”
Source: The Last Resort: A Novel
“Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“Nature cannot be bribed, when the necessary conditions are not met, it does not happen”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.”
“Nature chose to rage in 1918, and it chose the form of the influenza virus in which to do it. This meant that nature first crept upon the world in familiar, almost comic, form. It came in masquerade. Then it pulled down its mask and showed its fleshleass bone.”
Source: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History