Nature Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Our Earth (Page 2)

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"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

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

Emily Bronte, Novelist

"External nature is only internal nature writ large"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"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

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"I am two with nature"

Woody Allen, Director

"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

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"All art is but imitation of nature"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I love not man the less, but Nature more"

Lord Byron, Poet

"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, President

"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, Soldier

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"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, Author

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"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, Writer

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"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, Writer

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own"

Terence, Playwright

"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life"

Jane Austen, Writer

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

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back"

Horace, Poet

"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Water is the driving force of all nature"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion"

Anatole France, Novelist

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time"

Robert Browning, Poet

"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, Author

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