Quotes about nature
nature men study
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero
nature law impossible
What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
nature annihilation
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
nature mistake philosophical
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
nature men humanity
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Georg C. Lichtenberg
nature weakness humans
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
nature simplicity noble
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
nature enough natural
Nature is not natural and that is natural enough. Gertrude Stein
nature flower garden
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. Georgia O'Keeffe
nature flower heart
A flower touches everyone's heart.
nature inspiration world
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
nature real book
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature. Paul Cezanne
nature eye order
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.
nature men quality
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. Oscar Wilde
nature extinction
There is no place in nature for extinction. Lucretius
nature servant-of-god tree
He who plants a tree is a servant of God. Louis L'Amour
nature ocean tree
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. Michael Dolan
nature giving expectations
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it Michael Crichton
nature science people
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them. Herbert Read
nature brother zoos
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother. Evan Esar
nature children stupid
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple. Eugene Delacroix
nature unity parts-of-a-whole
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
nature father moon
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. Ernest Hemingway
nature math law
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
nature men masters
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature. Henry Miller
nature men emotion
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. Henri Bergson
nature real order
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it. . . .
nature soul landscape
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail. Henri Frederic Amiel
nature greatness house
Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.
nature loss men
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. Helen Keller
nature sides priceless
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
nature garden luxury
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
nature stars optimistic
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.