“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
Nature does not need us, but we desperately need it. These quotes celebrate the natural world — forests, oceans, mountains, seasons — and the perspective that comes from spending time in places where human concerns feel very small.
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.”
“Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.”
“Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”
“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”
“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.”
“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
“I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.”
“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
“Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
“When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.”
“I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.”