Nature Quotes
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
All art is but imitation of nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.Francis Bacon
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
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
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.Marilyn Monroe
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
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
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
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.Akhenaton
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.Edmund Spense
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - They are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.Henri - Frederic Amiel
Nature made him, and then broke the mold.Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
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
Nature does nothing uselessly.Aristotle, Politics
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.R. J. Baughan
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.Aristotle, Politics
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
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
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
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.Joan Borysenko
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Edmund Burke
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.Alexander Hamilton
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
