Nature Quotes
-
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
E. O. Wilson
-
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
-
I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.
Michael Jackson
-
As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
-
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
Louise Erdrich
-
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Plotinus
-
Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
-
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
Arthur Conan Doyle
-
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.
Ernest Holmes
-
For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.
Baruch Spinoza
-
Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.
Tom Hanks
-
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
Tacitus
-
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
John Milton
-
He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.
Confucius
-
So shall we voyd of all craft and sail, with true reason declare how much each man erreth in life, judgement, opinion, and will. Some things there are that so wel do prove themselves, as besides nature nede no profe at all.
Gerolamo Cardano
-
Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.
Claudius Claudianus
