Nature Quotes

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A. A. Milne

Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

Jose Vasconcelos

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Emerson

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

Tacitus

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

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

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

James A. Autry

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

Albert Camus

Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

R. J. Baughan

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it - - For them everything must be sought in things themselves.

Francis Bacon

Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra".

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

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

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Akhenaton

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

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Edmund Spense

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Herodotus

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Theresa

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

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

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

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - Instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle, Politics