No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
4 views from William Howard Taft
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
2 more quotes from Michael Faraday
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
21 views from Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
21 sayings from Leo Tolstoy
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
21 other views from Miguel de Cervantes
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
4 sayings from John Cage
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
2 thoughts from Ellsworth Huntington
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
19 quotes from H. G. Wells
Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
27 more quotes from Kin Hubbard
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
6 other quotes from Malcolm De Chazal
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
21 more quotes from Laurence J. Peter
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
9 more wisdom & wit from Elizabeth I
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
24 thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
63 other quotes from Samuel Johnson
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
10 wisdom & wit from Taylor Caldwell
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
8 more quotes from Thomas Browne
The good man is the friend of all living things.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
19 quotes from John Keats
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
13 wisdom & wit from e. e. cummings
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
16 quotes from Wallace Stevens
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
9 quotes from Hannah Arendt
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
11 more wisdom & wit from Graham Greene
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
16 more quotes from Wallace Stevens
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
4 sayings from Franz Liszt
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
16 quotes from Denis Diderot
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
9 other sayings from Niels Bohr
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
8 wisdom & wit from Alphonse de Lamartine
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
100 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
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.
100 more views from Mahatma Gandhi
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
28 other quotes from Napoleon Hill
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
24 thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
Nature is neutral.
24 other sayings from Adlai E. Stevenson
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
9 other quotes from John Dewey
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
16 quotes from Denis Diderot
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
30 other thoughts from Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
16 wisdom & wit from Wallace Stevens
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
16 quotes from Wallace Stevens
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
19 sayings from John Keats
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
24 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
7 quotes from Jean Giraudoux
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
2 thoughts from James Whitcomb Riley
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
18 other sayings from Baruch Spinoza
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
18 more wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
14 thoughts from Laurence Sterne
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
52 other quotes from Albert Camus
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
The groves were God's first temples.
5 quotes from William C. Bryant
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
12 more views from James Allen
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
14 sayings from Muhammad Iqbal
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
12 thoughts from William Cowper
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
4 more wisdom & wit from Auguste Rodin
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
4 other quotes from Clarence Day
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
10 thoughts from Isaac Bashevis Singer
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
19 other quotes from Jonathan Swift
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
52 views from George Eliot
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
32 thoughts from Martin Luther
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
9 sayings from Carl Sagan
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
52 other wisdom & wit from Albert Camus
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
4 sayings from Marie Curie
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
Custom is second nature.
2 other quotes from Augustine of Hippo
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
4 sayings from Antonio Porchia
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
5 wisdom & wit from William C. Bryant
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
5 sayings from Claude Monet
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.
39 more sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
5 sayings from Claude Monet
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.
22 more thoughts from Jimi Hendrix
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
6 quotes from Norman MacCaig
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
52 sayings from George Eliot
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
14 other quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
78 sayings from Voltaire
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
My nature just changes.
22 more wisdom & wit from Jimi Hendrix
Nature has always had more force than education.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
25 thoughts from Will Durant
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
12 more thoughts from William Cowper
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
26 quotes from Emily Dickinson
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
30 more wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
7 more quotes from Henri Matisse
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
46 other quotes from George Santayana
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
26 more views from Emily Dickinson
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
21 quotes from Jane Austen
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
4 thoughts from Adolf Loos
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
5 other quotes from John Milton
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
12 views from Rudyard Kipling
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
46 other thoughts from George Santayana
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
18 more wisdom & wit from Margaret Mead
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
23 more quotes from Walt Disney
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
9 thoughts from Willa Cather
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
12 more sayings from George MacDonald
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
3 more thoughts from Frank B. Kellogg
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
12 other thoughts from Mao Zedong
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
23 more views from Henry Miller
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
2 other sayings from Werner Heisenberg
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
7 other quotes from Edvard Munch
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
30 other sayings from Gustave Flaubert
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
4 more quotes from Paracelsus
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
46 other views from George Santayana
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
5 quotes from John Milton
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
21 wisdom & wit from Jane Austen
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
2 other thoughts from Werner Heisenberg
You can't just let nature run wild.
23 other sayings from Walt Disney
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
67 other views from Francis Bacon
Nature is the art of God.
13 other views from Dante Alighieri
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
6 thoughts from William Lyon Phelps
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
10 other sayings from Tertullian
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.
10 other sayings from John Donne
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.
23 other views from Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
23 more quotes from Paul Cezanne
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
30 other thoughts from Virginia Woolf
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
67 more wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
5 quotes from Pliny the Elder
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.
29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
40 views from William James
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
12 wisdom & wit from Quintilian
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
12 quotes from Zora Neale Hurston
The nature of rumor is known to all.
10 quotes from Tertullian
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
67 other quotes from Francis Bacon
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
23 more quotes from Paul Cezanne
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
3 more quotes from Edouard Manet
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
13 quotes from Alexander Hamilton
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
16 views from Isaac Asimov
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
37 sayings from Edmund Burke
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
23 views from Paul Cezanne
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
20 thoughts from Thomas Aquinas
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
56 other sayings from Khalil Gibran
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
5 wisdom & wit from Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
24 quotes from Carl Sandburg
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
19 more sayings from Anton Chekhov
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
15 more quotes from Albert Schweitzer
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
67 other views from Francis Bacon
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
15 other quotes from Moliere
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
25 more wisdom & wit from Orison Swett Marden
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
67 more views from Francis Bacon
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
26 sayings from E. M. Forster
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
6 other quotes from Tacitus
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
2 thoughts from Anne Bronte
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
23 other views from Paul Cezanne
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
13 thoughts from Dante Alighieri
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
20 more quotes from Thomas Aquinas
By nature, men love newfangledness.
6 other quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
2 other sayings from Robinson Jeffers
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
23 thoughts from Paul Cezanne
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
9 views from Swami Vivekananda
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
5 quotes from Patricia Highsmith
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
23 other quotes from Paul Cezanne
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
96 more views from Benjamin Franklin
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
13 sayings from Alexander Hamilton
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
37 other views from Edmund Burke
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
19 views from Edgar Allan Poe
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
19 thoughts from Elvis Presley
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
5 other thoughts from Zane Grey
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
29 views from W. Somerset Maugham
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.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
21 sayings from Anais Nin
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
7 more thoughts from Langston Hughes
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
6 quotes from Charles Lindbergh
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
45 other wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
7 more views from Langston Hughes
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
26 more thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
3 quotes from Jules Verne
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
73 sayings from Victor Hugo
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
13 wisdom & wit from Ansel Adams
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
21 quotes from W. H. Auden
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
31 sayings from Thomas Paine
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
22 quotes from Henry Adams
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.
73 more thoughts from Victor Hugo
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
31 wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
8 quotes from James Dean
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
8 thoughts from Charles Darwin
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
2 quotes from Arthur Keith
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature abhors a vacuum.
13 other quotes from Francois Rabelais
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
73 views from Victor Hugo
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
31 other wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
7 views from Galileo Galilei
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
5 views from Andre Breton
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
7 quotes from Walter Bagehot
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
19 sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
26 wisdom & wit from Charles Dickens
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
3 more quotes from Harriet Ann Jacobs
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
2 more views from Georges Simenon
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
45 thoughts from John Ruskin
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
16 views from Havelock Ellis
There is no forgiveness in nature.
2 views from Ugo Betti
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
5 quotes from Charles Eastman
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
26 more quotes from Charles Dickens
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
8 thoughts from Charles Darwin
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
2 views from Adam Weishaupt
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
26 more wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
2 other quotes from Mary Webb
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
18 views from Joseph Campbell
We must return to nature and nature's god.
6 other sayings from Luther Burbank
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
105 more sayings from Albert Einstein
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
17 sayings from Tennessee Williams
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
23 more thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
17 quotes from Tennessee Williams
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
3 sayings from Josef Albers
Gossip is nature's telephone.
3 other views from Sholom Aleichem
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
12 thoughts from Julius Caesar
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
16 views from Michelangelo
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
2 quotes from Alan Hovhaness
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
4 views from Jean Ingelow
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
81 more quotes from William Shakespeare
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
81 more thoughts from William Shakespeare
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
17 other thoughts from John Burroughs
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.
17 quotes from John Burroughs
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
41 more thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
13 more thoughts from John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go.
13 other sayings from John Muir
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
38 more quotes from William Hazlitt
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
20 quotes from Herbert Spencer
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
8 quotes from Hosea Ballou
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
13 more quotes from John Muir
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
21 thoughts from William Wordsworth
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
16 quotes from David Hume
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
13 quotes from John Muir
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
9 other views from Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
5 views from Charlotte Bronte
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
13 quotes from John Muir
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
8 sayings from Thomas Hobbes
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
20 quotes from Anatole France
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
41 wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
Nature can do more than physicians.
5 quotes from Oliver Cromwell
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
20 wisdom & wit from Anatole France
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Nature never breaks her own laws.
27 sayings from Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
21 other views from William Wordsworth
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
11 other quotes from Nicolas Chamfort
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
25 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
16 wisdom & wit from David Hume
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
5 thoughts from Nikita Khrushchev
Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
13 quotes from John Muir
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
14 thoughts from Edward Gibbon
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
13 quotes from John Muir
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
38 views from William Hazlitt
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
38 views from William Hazlitt
The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
21 more sayings from William Wordsworth
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
2 quotes from Robert Wilson Lynd
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
38 views from William Hazlitt
Water is the driving force of all nature.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
25 other wisdom & wit from Charles Baudelaire
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
53 wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
23 other quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
33 quotes from Thomas Huxley
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
14 wisdom & wit from Arthur Conan Doyle
Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
15 more sayings from Orson Welles
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
3 more sayings from Richard P. Feynman
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
43 sayings from Alexander Pope
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
24 views from Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
24 views from Joseph Addison
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is art? Nature concentrated.
53 more views from Honore de Balzac
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
3 quotes from Hal Borland
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
30 thoughts from Walt Whitman
Earth laughs in flowers.
135 more wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
30 more wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
30 more wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
3 more quotes from Hal Borland
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
35 views from Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
35 sayings from Rabindranath Tagore
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
43 more quotes from Alexander Pope
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
16 wisdom & wit from Hubert H. Humphrey
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
43 other sayings from Alexander Pope
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
7 other thoughts from Thomas Moore
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
43 other sayings from Alexander Pope
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
2 more quotes from Joseph Butler
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
43 other wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
3 other quotes from Richard P. Feynman
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
7 other quotes from Jerome K. Jerome
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
15 sayings from Christopher Morley
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
24 sayings from Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
24 views from Joseph Addison
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
43 other quotes from Alexander Pope
Nature hates calculators.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a petrified magic city.
10 other quotes from Novalis
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
31 thoughts from Helen Keller
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
20 sayings from Christopher Lasch
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.
14 quotes from Thomas Hardy
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
15 other quotes from Pierre Corneille
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
12 sayings from Marquis de Sade
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
58 other thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Human nature is above all things lazy.
7 wisdom & wit from Harriet Beecher Stowe
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
10 other wisdom & wit from William Ralph Inge
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
12 quotes from Marquis de Sade
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
57 more wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
57 more sayings from Blaise Pascal
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
14 views from Thomas Hardy
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
26 other quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
17 sayings from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
15 thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
6 views from Charles Kingsley
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
12 quotes from Marquis de Sade
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
58 other quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
6 wisdom & wit from Jacques Yves Cousteau
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
12 more quotes from Marquis de Sade
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
8 thoughts from Nathaniel Hawthorne
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
8 views from Edward Hopper
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
9 quotes from Iris Murdoch
People must help one another it is nature's law.
15 sayings from Jean de La Fontaine
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
19 quotes from Marshall McLuhan
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
9 wisdom & wit from Satchel Paige
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
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.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
13 other quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
19 quotes from Marshall McLuhan
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
27 views from Dave Barry
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
2 other quotes from Camille Pissarro
Great art picks up where nature ends.
5 views from Marc Chagall
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
18 more sayings from Marcel Proust
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
6 more quotes from Emily Bronte
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.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
3 other quotes from John Paul Jones
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
8 views from Edward Hopper
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Land really is the best art.
18 more quotes from Andy Warhol
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
5 quotes from Ingrid Bergman
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
4 more quotes from Jerry Garcia
Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
3 views from Roger Tory Peterson
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
3 quotes from Rupert Brooke
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
8 other thoughts from Maria Mitchell
Hidden nature is secret God.
2 more quotes from Sri Aurobindo
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
13 quotes from Herman Melville
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
10 quotes from Max Beerbohm
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
9 views from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
16 sayings from Coco Chanel
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
22 more thoughts from Samuel Richardson
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
19 quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
2 quotes from Pierre Schaeffer
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
10 quotes from Luc de Clapiers
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
2 wisdom & wit from H. P. Blavatsky
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
4 other quotes from Izaak Walton
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
10 thoughts from Max Beerbohm
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
15 quotes from Walter Scott