Nature Quotes

Tacitus - it is human nature to hate him whom you have...
Aldous huxley - consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to...
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
Joseph Conrad
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Aristotle
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
Elisha Potte
To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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
A man is related to all nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
John Ruskin
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.
Jose Vasconcelos
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Albert Camus
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...
Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
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
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
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
David Hume
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Francis Bacon
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson
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
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.
Pietro Aretino
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Von Weizsacke
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
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
Johnson
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.
Auguste Renoi