- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nature Quotes
Nature seen through curiosity, method, and connection.
Most of these quotes come from a scientific perspective, exploring how questioning and method shape what we understand as nature rather than treating it as something purely separate from us. For quotes that turn nature into short, shareable lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
- Image
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
- Change
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
- Blank Paper
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
- Painting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
- Mountain
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- Adversity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020