Famous Quotes
- Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
- Pedro Calderon De La Barca on Nature
- Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
- Jack Herer on Nature
- Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
- Blaise Pascal on Nature
- Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- Marcel Proust on Nature
- Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
- Dennis Prager on Nature
- Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
- William Bartram on Nature
- Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Nature
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
- Henri Frederic Amiel on Nature
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
- He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Nature
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
- Samuel Johnson on Nature
- He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick on Nature
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Nature
- Hidden nature is secret God.
- Sri Aurobindo on Nature
- High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
- Camille Paglia on Nature
- Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Nature
- How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
- Emily Dickinson on Nature
- Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
- Edward Thorndike on Nature
- Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
- Bryant H. McGill on Nature
- Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
- Arthur C. Clarke on Nature
- Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien on Nature
- Human nature is above all things lazy.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe on Nature
- Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
- Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
- Graham Greene on Nature
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Thomas Paine on Nature
- Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead on Nature
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
- Jane Austen on Nature
- Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
- Sienna Miller on Nature
- Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
- Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- David Hume on Nature
- Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
- Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
- Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
- Mason Cooley on Nature
- Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Nature
- Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
- Noam Chomsky on Nature
- I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
- Sidney Sheldon on Nature
- I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
- James Dean on Nature
- I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
- Desmond Tutu on Nature
- I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
- I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet on Nature
- I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Nature
- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Wilhelm Von Humboldt on Nature
- I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
- Wendell Berry on Nature
- I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
- Herbert Read on Nature
- I am two with nature.
- Woody Allen on Nature
- I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
- Jerome K. Jerome on Nature
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