Nature Quotes: Embracing the Beauty of Our Earth (Page 5)

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

"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 become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh"

Victor Hugo, Author

"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

"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

"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

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"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 artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden"

Plato, Philosopher

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education"

Plato, Philosopher

"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

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince"

Plato, Philosopher

"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

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"All men by nature desire knowledge"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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