Nature Quotes
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.John Burroughs
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.Dick Gregory
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.Robert Southey
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
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
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
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - - - And another woman to help him forget them.Helen Rowland
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
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.Marilyn Monroe
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blai
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
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.
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
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.Joseph Conrad
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.Johann von Goethe
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aureluis
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.William James
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
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)
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
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
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.William Wordsworth
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.Katherine D. Ortega
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
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
Human reason is by nature architectonic.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
