- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
- Heap
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- Nov 07, 2020
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
- Good Breeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
- Coherence
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- Nov 07, 2020