Nature Quotes
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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
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 is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Dick Gregory
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
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
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.John Updike
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.William Wordsworth
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.Pierre Charron
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.Eugene Paul Wigne
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
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
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. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.Thomas Huxley
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
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.Horace Binney
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.Henry David Thoreau
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.Cicero
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.Edmund Spense
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
All art is an imitation of nature.Seneca
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
A brother is a friend given by Nature.Legouve
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.Kahlil Gibran
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.Margaret Fulle
Adopt the pace of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human reason is by nature architectonic.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.Arthur C. Clarke
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.James A. Autry
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.John Calvin
