N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nature is amazing wonder.”
“Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.”
“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“Nature is an experimenter.”
“Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.”
Source: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
“Nature is an illustration of the language of mathematics.”
“Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
“Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.”
Source: Hidden Bodies
“Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.”
“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
“Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.”
Source: The Model: A Book on the Problems of Posing
“Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel a remarkable sense of gratitude and awe. My mind quiets down and allows me to see more clearly the beauty of creation. And through that gratitude, the beauty of the universe is reflected back to the creator.”
“Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them.”
Source: Women's Wisdom: The Garden of Peace for Women
“Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.”
“Nature is as Love is. Love, nature and all of reality at their core is attention, will, creation, life-sustenance, existence in which nothing exists by itself, coexistence, harmony.”
Source: Love Over Fear: A Foundation for Autonomy
“Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Nature is at all times unequivocal; its secrets, so difficult to decode, lay open to the eye. It is otherwise with the fullness of being of the soul. It never exhausts itself as having come into existence; rather, it passes through this level of determination and exhaustion only to return again to a process of becoming, to a living actuality. From an unfathomable primordial source, interior being [innern], the soul's difficult-to-comprehend forms climb into the light of consciousness where they dissolve again like all genuine creations of the night. The soul is at all times ambiguous; before every attempt to unravel its secrets, it retreats back to the depths.”
Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”
“Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.”
“Nature is beautiful because it is simple.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.”
“Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.”
Source: Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence
“Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.”
“Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.”
“Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning.”
Source: The Twain, Poems of Earth and Ether
“Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.”
“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.”
“Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.”
“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.”
Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or even control.”
Source: Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light
“Nature is certainly cruel... But make no mistake; man is crueller. And the gods: the gods are cruellest of all.”
Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.”
“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
“Nature is constantly remaking you, yet you hold onto old energy through your emotions. Your mind, your thoughts, aren't physical and nature can't heal or recycle them. Only you can do that ... when you're willing to let go of them.”
Source: Colliding Forces
“Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.”
“Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.”
Source: Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes
“Nature is cruel and vicious and that that is why man was given dominion over the natural world, because man was the only creature that God could trust to bring justice to it.”
Idalina frowned at this, but nonetheless she returned her arm to her granddaughter’s shoulders and gave them a reassuring squeeze.
“Nature is certainly cruel,” she said, in a voice which sounded strangely cold and detached. “But make no mistake; man is crueller. And the gods: the gods are cruellest of all.”
Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“Nature is cruel but we don't have to be”
“Nature is cruel; it's man whose is sick of blood– and man doesn't seem so very sick of it...”
“Nature is divine and artists are Her prophets”
“Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature?”
“Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.”
“Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.”
Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”
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 is experiencing great destruction! If you're just crying for it but don't do anything serious, your tears are of no importance to nature other than providing salty water to the soil!”