Famous Quotes

"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."

George MacDonald on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by George MacDonald

• "Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."

• "Attitudes are more important than facts."

• "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."

• "Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

• "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."