Nature Quotes

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated"

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much"

George Savile, Politician

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed"

O. Henry, Writer

"Human nature is above all things lazy"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract"

Jessamyn West, Author

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil"

Anatole France, Novelist

"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt"

Tacitus, Historian

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured"

Tacitus, Historian

"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man"

Tacitus, Historian

"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave"

Sallust, Historian

"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset"

Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth"

Camille Paglia, Author

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry"

William Golding, Novelist

"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it"

Camille Paglia, Author

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"

E. B. White, Writer

"I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory"

Julius Caesar, Leader

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