Nature Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Our Earth

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

Voltaire, Writer

"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

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

Plutarch, Philosopher

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

Forrest Tucker, Actor

"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

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

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"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

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"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

"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

"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

"Envy is human nature"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"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

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"

Juvenal, Poet

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

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"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 work with nature, although in completely new terms"

Bridget Riley, Artist

"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 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

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"External nature is only internal nature writ large"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide"

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

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

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

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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