Nature Quotes
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.John Ruskin
Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.William Ralph Inge
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.Hugh Elliott
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
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
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it - - For them everything must be sought in things themselves.Francis Bacon
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!William Shakespeare
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas H. Huxley
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.Mary Ann Brussat
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.Henry David Thoreau
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.David Seabury
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.Phillip Lubin
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.Sir Francis Bacon
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
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
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.Auguste Rodin
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
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.Auguste Renoi
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.Marilyn Monroe
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract".
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.Dorothea Brande
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
