Nature Quotes

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry Kissinge

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

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

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

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Clive Lewis

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle, Politics

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

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind.

S. E. Lindsay, 1920

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.

Solomon Short

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.

Henry Ward Beeche

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 is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature does not give to those who will not spend.

R. J. Baughan

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

Lao Tzu

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Thomas Huxley

This is the true nature of home - It is the place of Peace the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

John Ruskin

A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Emerson

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

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

We still do not know one - Thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

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, Meditations

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Macneile Dixon

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.

L. M. K. Boelter, 1957

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning

Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra".