Nature Quotes

• Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Ravages
  • Human Labor

• There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature

  

  African Spir
  • Moral
  • DUalism
  • Empirical

• Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Fair

• The planets revolved in circles because it was in their nature to do so, just as laudanum sends to sleep because it possesses a virtus dormitiva.

  

  Agnes Mary Clerke
  • Nature
  • Planets
  • Circles

• Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Nature
  • Poets
  • Grand

• Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • Democracy

• Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.

  

  Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Nature
  • Man

• Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Succeed

• Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

  

  George Parsons Lathrop
  • Connection
  • Characters
  • Meaning

• I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Men
  • Love
  • Travel

• From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Spirits

• I think any artist is a perfectionist by their nature.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Nature

• The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Scientist

• There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Inclined

• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Art
  • Nature

• The desire that drives an artist to graphic work is perhaps partly the effort to capture the unique and indefinite nature of a drawing in a fixed and durable form. Another aspect of it is that the technical manipulations exercise energies in the artist that he does not use in the far less strenuous crafts of drawing and painting.. .the mysterious attraction that surrounded the invention of printing in the Middle Ages is still felt by anyone who takes up graphics seriously and performs every stage in the process wit hits own hands.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Desire
  • Artist
  • Invention

• In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

  

  John Ruskin
  • She
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Water
  • Protect
  • Plans

• I believe in anything it would be nature - trees, clouds, rain - the life cycles that begin and end, season after season. that makes sense to me - nature as God.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • God
  • I Believe
  • Life Cycle

• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Law
  • Trouble
  • Intellectual

• Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Men
  • Action
  • Hands

• It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.

  

  David Boies
  • Nature

• Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love – He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • God
  • Love
  • Kindness

• We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I was born into it; we all were. But we may not feel the ties unless we gain intimacy by seeing, feeling, smelling, touching and studying the natural world. Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Religion
  • Beauty
  • Animals

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