Nature Quotes
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
Ezra Pound
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I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.
Paul Klee
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Seneca the Younger
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I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
George Bernard Shaw
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The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
Alfred Harker
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Jonathan Swift
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The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.
Erwin Schrodinger
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We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.
Nina Easton
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
Nikola Tesla
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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
Ernestine Rose
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Where the trees thicken into a wood, the fragrance of the wet earth and rotting leaves kicked up by the horses' hoofs fills my soul with delight. I particularly love that smell, -- it brings before me the entire benevolence of Nature, for ever working death and decay, so piteous in themselves, into the means of fresh life and glory, and sending up sweet odours as she works.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.
Pearl Cleage
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The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
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Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.
Stuart Wilde
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There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
Nicole Kidman
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Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
George Ross Kirkpatrick
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
Michel Foucault
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I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
Ricky Williams
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
Emily Dickinson