Nature Quotes
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Cyril Connolly
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.Pietro Aretino
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.Aristotle, Politics
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.Tacitus
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
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.Joan Borysenko
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.Jacob Brownowski
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.Mary Ann Brussat
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.Ralph Waldo Emerson
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blai
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
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
A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
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
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.Mark Twain
All art is but imitation of nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
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
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
