Nature Quotes

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

Samuel Smiles

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

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

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Democritus

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Robert Southey

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.

Seneca

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

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

There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

Bill Wulf

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

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.

George E. Woodbury

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

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Alan Bleasdale

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle, Politics

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?

Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcou

Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Mere

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Kahlil Gibran

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

John Ruskin

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurbe

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.

Tacitus

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset