Nature Quotes
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
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.Arthur C. Clarke
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
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.Tacitus
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.Cicero
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
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
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - Matter is eternal.Horace Binney
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
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.Richard Bach
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.Francis Bacon
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.William Ellery Channing
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
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
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
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.Arnold J. Toynbee
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.Sallust
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
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.Galileo Galilei
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
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
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.William Rotsle
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
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 is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fulle
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
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
