Nature Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Our Earth

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

Voltaire, Writer

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him"

Forrest Tucker, Actor

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

Plutarch, Philosopher

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

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

"Man is by nature a political animal"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Envy is human nature"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature"

Socrates, Philosopher

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"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

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

"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, Philosopher

"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, Writer

"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

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

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation"

Edwin Way Teale

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

Henri Rousseau, Artist

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"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

"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"

Juvenal, Poet

"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature"

Henri Poincare, Mathematician

"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"I work with nature, although in completely new terms"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"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

"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

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