Nature Quotes
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty - Five?Alfred, Lord Tennyson
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Mui
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.John Burroughs
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
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.Carl Jung
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.Johann von Goethe
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
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
A father is a banker provided by nature.French Prove
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
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.Margaret Fulle
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.Stephen Jay Gould
Nature loves a burst of energy.Boe Lightman
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.Albert Einstein
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.Alan Bleasdale
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.Leonardo DaVinci
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
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
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.Plato, The Republic
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
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
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.Thomas Paine
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.William James
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
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.Henry G. Stott, 1907
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
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
