Nature Quotes
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If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?
John Locke
Nazareth
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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill
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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Nigel Dennis
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Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
Philip Wylie
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Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
Paul Fleischman
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
Camille Paglia
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What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
Jeremy Corbyn
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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
John Ralston Saul
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Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small. It’s more that nature’s playing field is full of traps.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale
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There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
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The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
John Joly
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In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.
Louise Leakey
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Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
George Mason
