Nature Quotes

John ruskin - it is written on the arched sky it looks out from...
Marcus aurelius antoninus, meditations - nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted...
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra".
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. Milne
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Mui
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Richard Bach
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Alan Bleasdale
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
Franoise Mallet - Joris
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
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
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
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, it? s nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06 - 02 - 04
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
George Crabbe
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
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.
Maitri Upanishads
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
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
Jim Morrison
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
Clive Lewis
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
Titus Livius
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexande
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Thomas Huxley
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare