Nature Quotes

"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, Environmentalist

"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"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

"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

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"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

"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not"

Howard Thurman, Educator

"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God"

Euclid, Scientist

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature"

Harold Coffin

"All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light"

Wilkie Collins, Novelist

"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

"The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody"

Florence E. Allen

"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people"

Tarja Halonen, Statesman

"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that"

John Prescott, Politician

"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"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

"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, Photographer

"If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you"

Alex Trebek, Entertainer

"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you"

Al Franken, Comedian

"I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled"

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"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

"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

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

Sophocles, Author

"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

"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature"

David Hare, Playwright

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"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

"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, Author

"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, Writer

"Nature has always had more force than education"

Voltaire, Writer

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination"

Voltaire, Writer

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