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

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Alan Bleasdale

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Tacitus

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

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Confucius

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

California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Dawkins

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.

Jacob Brownowski

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

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

Mere

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Unknown

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle, Politics

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann von Goethe

Nature hates calculators.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle, Politics

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

John Milton

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

William Rotsle

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

Waldo Frank