Nature Quotes
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.Walter Bagehot
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
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.Aristotle
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.William Henry Harrison
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
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
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcou
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
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.Marylin Monroe
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
All art is but imitation of nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.Alfred A. Montapert
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas H. Huxley
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
All art is an imitation of nature.Seneca
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203 - 1207.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aureluis
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
Nature is wont to hide herself.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
