Nature Quotes
All art is an imitation of nature.Seneca
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.Jacob Brownowski
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
The love of nature is consolation against failure.Berthe Morisot
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
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
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
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.Walter Bagehot
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.Cicero
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
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
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
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.Antoinette Brown Blackwell
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.Carl Jung
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
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
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
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
