Nature quotes

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

“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.” George Washington Bush

“Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.” George Washington Bush

“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.” Julius Caesar

“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.” Bob Dylan

“I think I have a dualistic nature.” Bob Dylan

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.” Clint Eastwood

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” Helen Keller

“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.” Warren Buffett

“My nature just changes.” Jimi Hendrix

“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.” Jimi Hendrix

“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.” Edward Hopper

“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.” Edward Hopper

“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.” Edward Hopper

“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.” Edward Hopper

“The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.” Mick Jagger

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.” William James

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” William James

“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.” Stephen King

“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.” Rudyard Kipling

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.” Clive Staples Lewis

“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.” Michelangelo

“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.” Barack Obama

“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.” Henry Miller

“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” James Madison