Nature Quotes

Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
Lao Tzu
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
Edmund Spense
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing
Alfred tennyson - words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal...
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
Helen rowland - every man wants a woman to appeal to his better...
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle, Politics
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Unknown
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
John Milton
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
Richard feynman - for a successful technology, reality must take...
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
Macneile Dixon
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle, Parts of Animals
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Ingersoll
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.
B. F. Skinne
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.
R. J. Baughan
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
Horace
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
George Crabbe
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Joseph Conrad
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Richard Bach
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it - - For them everything must be sought in things themselves.
Francis Bacon
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
Auguste Renoi