Quotes about Nature
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
- Washington Irving
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
- Joseph Addison
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- Publilius Syrus
The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.
- Myles Munroe
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
- Carl Jung
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
- Cicero
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
- Pope John Paul II
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
- Wendell Berry
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
- Aristotle
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.
- John Wesley