Nature Quotes
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
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
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.Hugh Blai
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
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.Marquis de Vauvenargues
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
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
All art is an imitation of 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
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.Paul Jones
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
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
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
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
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.William Wordsworth
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.Barry Lopez
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.Author Unknown
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
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.Juvenal
Nature loves a burst of energy.Boe Lightman
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.Dorothea Brande
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.William James
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 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
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.Sir Francis Bacon
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
