Nature Quotes

Emerson - nature and books belong to the eyes that see them....
Stephen jay gould - the true beauty of nature is her amplitude she...
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
Athenus
The holy passion of Friendship is of 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
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 our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Linnaeus
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
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Frances Burnett
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodbury
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle, Politics
Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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
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
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
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 uses as little as possible of anything.
Alan Bleasdale
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
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
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
Legouve
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Von Weizsacke
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
Juvenal
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
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
Martin Luthe
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
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)
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
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
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