Nature Quotes

Brigham young - nature is the glass reflecting god, as by the sea...
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
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
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
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
Mary Ann Brussat
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
Woody allen - i am at two with nature....
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
Frank lloyd wright - i believe in god, only i spell it nature....
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
Henry G. Stott, 1907
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing - - To live in accord with his nature.
Seneca
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Richard Bach
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Robert Darwin
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Cicero
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
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
Robert Hutchins
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
Akhenaton
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinge
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
Albert Einstein
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
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexande
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beeche
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - - Trees, flowers, grass - - Grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Theresa
Sex is part of nature, I go with nature.
Marylin Monroe
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.
R. J. Baughan
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius