Nature Quotes

Aristotle, politics - nature does nothing uselessly....
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
Jane austen, emma - human nature is so well disposed towards those...
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
Jim Morrison
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
Richard Feynman
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
Plato - all men are by nature equal, made all of the same...
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.
Maitri Upanishads
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Frances Burnett
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fulle
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Cicero
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.
Phillip Lubin
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Theresa
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
Francis Bacon
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Prove
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
William A. Smith, 1908
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.
Dorothea Brande
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
Alfred A. Montapert
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Hellen Kelle
This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
John Ruskin
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara