Nature Quotes
Nature does not proceed by leaps.Linnaeus
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
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)
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
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
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.Henrik Ibsen
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.Charles Baudelaire
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.Francis Bacon
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.Aristotle, Parts of Animals
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.William Henry Harrison
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare
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
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.Maitri Upanishads
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.Anatole France
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.George Crabbe
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)
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.Cicero
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.Seneca
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.Robert Ingersoll
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.Albert Einstein
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.Carl Jung
A brother is a friend given by Nature.Legouve
