Famous Quotes
- The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
- John Ruskin on Nature
- The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on Nature
- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- Joseph Addison on Nature
- The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
- John Milton on Nature
- The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
- Christopher Alexander on Nature
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- Francis Bacon on Nature
- The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis on Nature
- The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
- Galileo Galilei on Nature
- The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
- William James on Nature
- The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
- Joni Mitchell on Nature
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
- Henry Beston on Nature
- The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
- William Blake on Nature
- The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
- Phillips Brooks on Nature
- The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
- Paul Cezanne on Nature
- The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
- Vera Farmiga on Nature
- The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden on Nature
- The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on Nature
- The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Tennessee Williams on Nature
- The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
- H. P. Blavatsky on Nature
- The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
- The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- James Thurber on Nature
- The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
- E. E. Cummings on Nature
- The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
- William Wordsworth on Nature
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
- Clint Eastwood on Nature
- There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse on Nature
- There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau on Nature
- There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen Hawking on Nature
- There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau on Nature
- There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Nature
- There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
- Edouard Manet on Nature
- There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
- Marshall McLuhan on Nature
- There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
- Denis Diderot on Nature
- There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.
- Ayelet Waldman on Nature
- There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
- Auguste Rodin on Nature
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
- Ansel Adams on Nature
- There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
- Jane Smiley on Nature
- There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
- Alexander Hamilton on Nature
- There is a great deal of human nature in man.
- Charles Kingsley on Nature
- There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Annie Dillard on Nature
- There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
- David Hume on Nature
- There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
- John Keats on Nature
- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- Stanislav Grof on Nature
- There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
- Edmund Burke on Nature
- There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
- Arthur Erickson on Nature
- There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau on Nature
- There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
- Tony Campolo on Nature
- There is no forgiveness in nature.
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