Quotes
Quotes about Nature
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.
Man is nature's sole mistake.
Though all the bards of earth were dead,
And all their music passed away,
What Nature wishes should be said
She'll find the rightful voice to say.
The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature--the idea of eternal punishment.
Nature abhors imperfect work
And on it lays her ban;
And all creation must despise
A tailless man.
Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,
Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?
Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,
Thou little heart?
It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.
Practice in time becomes second nature.
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Custom is almost a second nature.
For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.
We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against Nature.
Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
