Nature Quotes

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

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

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

Author Unknown

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

Henry David Thoreau

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

A father is a banker provided by nature.

French Prove

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Linnaeus

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

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

George E. Woodbury

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Clive Lewis

The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

David Hume

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Francis Bacon

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

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

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine

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 Aelius Aurelius

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

Cicero

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

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

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

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.

California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

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

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Cicero

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet - Joris

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

William Ellery Channing

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

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon