Nature Quotes

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.
Thomas H. Huxley
Seneca - what does reason demand of a man a very easy...
Henry david thoreau - what is a country without rabbits and partridges...
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
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
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
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.
Jose Vasconcelos
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
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
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
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
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, Meditations
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
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)
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene Paul Wigne
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Bill Wulf
Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
George Santayana
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodbury
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.
Humphrey Davy
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong - Doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
Cicero
It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
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
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
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White