Nature Quotes

Blaise pascal - nature has perfection, in order to show that she...
Elisha potte - human nature constitutes a part of the evidence...
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
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
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
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus, On the Universe
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Robert Darwin
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato
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
The love of nature is consolation against failure.
Berthe Morisot
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.
Bhagavad Gita
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
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle, Parts of Animals
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Ingersoll
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
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
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
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Mui
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Alan Bleasdale
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle, Metaphysics
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure.
Lyndon B. Johnson
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Prove
Adopt the pace of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann von Goethe
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
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe