Quotes

Quotes about Nature


Disease, of its nature, either kills or is cured

Theoretically a lofty love is conceivable; practically it is an ignoble and degrading thing, which it is equally disgusting to talk about and to remember. It is not in vain that nature has made ceremonies, but people pretend that the ignoble and the shameful is beautiful and lofty.

Leo Tolstoy

A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like a force of nature

Nature is full of Genius, full of Divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Dale E.Turner

Man is by nature an artist.

Tagore

Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that what he did was human nature -A.A. Milne

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs [Time and Change]

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time is nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Like a force of nature

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs [Time and Change]

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Voltaire

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery [Wind, Sand, Stars]

Nature, Time and Patience are the three great physicians.

Bulgarian Proverb

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

Richard Feynman

If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature...is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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