Quotes
Quotes about Nature
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
A brother is a friend given by nature.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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.
If a triangle could speak, it would say, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular.
It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
