Nature Quotes

Richard feynman - nature has a great simplicity and therefore a...
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
A man is related to all nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.
Stephen Jay Gould
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
Abraham Lincoln
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Cyril Connolly
Mark twain - so far as i am able to judge, nothing has been...
There is no place in nature for extinction.
Licretius
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Thomas huxley - sit down before fact like a little child, and be...
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
Edmund Spense
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Von Weizsacke
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann von Goethe
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
A. J. Toynbee
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
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
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Richard Bach
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle, Politics
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
Legouve
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.
Seneca
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
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