Nature Quotes
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)
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.Waldo Frank
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.Nikita Khrushchev
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.Marquis de Vauvenargues
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.Brigham Young
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.Frances Burnett
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
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.Kahlil Gibran
Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.R. E. Hellmund, 1929
Adopt the pace of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
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
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
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
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.John Calvin
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
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.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
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
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.W. Somerset Maugham
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 does not proceed by leaps.Linnaeus
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.Emerson
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
