Nature Quotes
I am at two with nature.Woody Allen
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
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
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
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 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
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.Unknown
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
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 Huxley
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
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
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
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure.Lyndon B. Johnson
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.George E. Woodbury
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
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.Archibald Alexande
A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
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
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.James A. Autry
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.George Gordon Byron
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
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
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.Clive Lewis
Adopt the pace of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
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
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
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
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
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
