Nature Quotes

Vincent van gogh - keep your love of nature, for that is the true...
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
Sir francis bacon - the subtlety of nature is greater many times over...
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 is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
Marilyn monroe - sex is a part of nature. i go along with nature....
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
Licretius
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Joseph Conrad
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
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Richard Bach
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere
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)
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
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
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
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
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
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 hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Henry David Thoreau
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beeche
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
Author Unknown
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
Adopt the pace of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset