Nature Quotes

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

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.

Maitri Upanishads

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

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.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Werner Heisenberg

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

Immanuel Kant