Nature Quotes

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.

Henry Ward Beeche

Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Archibald Alexande

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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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".

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

Belgian Prove

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

William James

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

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

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, Mansfield Park

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

California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

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

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Licretius

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

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

Cicero

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.

Seneca

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

Berthe Morisot

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Fran Lebowitz

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

William Ellery Channing

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

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Richard Bach

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.

Katherine D. Ortega

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

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Elisha Potte

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

David Hume

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke