Nature Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Our Earth

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings"

"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, Philosopher

"External nature is only internal nature writ large"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

Mark Russell, Writer

"I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"Water is the driving force of all nature"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature"

Robin Day, Journalist

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit"

Sophocles, Author

"I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature"

Cicero, Philosopher

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature"

Cicero, Philosopher

"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"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Nature abhors annihilation"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error"

Cicero, Philosopher

"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, Philosopher

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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, President

"The course of Nature is the art of God"

Edward Young, Poet

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth"

Edward Young, Poet

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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, Writer

"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, Politician

"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, Novelist

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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