Nature Quotes
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.Izaak Walton
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
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
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.Francis Bacon
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.Elisha Potte
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Dick Gregory
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
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
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.Frances Burnett
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.George Crabbe
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
Nature loves a burst of energy.Boe Lightman
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
We still do not know one - Thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
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
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
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.Carl Jung
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.Margaret Fulle
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
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - - - And another woman to help him forget them.Helen Rowland
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.Cicero
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
