Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
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
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker
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
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave Flaubert
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I am two with nature.
Woody Allen
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Annie Leibovitz
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules Verne
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Robert Byrne
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Wallace Stevens
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
Geraldo Rivera
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul
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
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Land really is the best art.
Andy Warhol
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Wallace Stevens
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
Andy Goldsworthy
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Ruth Bernhard
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
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
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman
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
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Saint Basil
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti
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
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
Steven Weinberg
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
Hamlin Garland
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Hamlin Garland
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Henry Cantwell Wallace
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle Dax
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
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.
Bob Dylan
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel Osteen
God, May, Inside
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Neil Armstrong
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens
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.
Plato
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali
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
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
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
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
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
For greed all nature is too little.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
Adam Weishaupt
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Carrot Top
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner
Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
Sidney Sheldon
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Karl Von Clausewitz
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason Cooley
Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
Richard Russo
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
Marguerite Moreau
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon
Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
Mason Cooley
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
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
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
Zac Efron
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
Franz Liszt
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
Erich Fromm
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Tertullian
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
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
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
W. H. Auden
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Zi
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexander
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
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
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
Frank B. Kellogg
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
Christina Aguilera
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Isabel Allende
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Lyon Phelps
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Benjamin Disraeli
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
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.
Aristotle
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.
Aristotle
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
William Shatner
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
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
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
David Millar
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady Gaga
Nature is perfect.
William Shatner
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal
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
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot
I like my home and I like the nature.
Billy Corgan
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Billy Corgan
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
William Hazlitt
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
Doug Coupland
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
Greg Kinnear
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear
Heart, Hard, Away
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
Alanis Morissette
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Gary Chapman
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.
Tiger Woods
We must return to nature and nature's god.
Luther Burbank
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Marquis de Sade
I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
Pat Robertson
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu
Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander Pope
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
George W. Bush
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
David Bailey
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Paul Getty
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
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
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
Lee Atwater
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
Marco Rubio
It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'
Marco Rubio
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
David Hockney
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
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
William Burroughs
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin
For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
Liam Neeson
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
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.
George W. Bush
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
By nature I'm not a brooder.
Hugh Jackman
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
Hugh Jackman
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
Hugh Jackman
I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
Hugh Jackman
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.
Donna Leon
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
P. J. O'Rourke
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
Martin Scorsese
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne
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