Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
7 other quotes from Galileo Galilei
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
5 quotes from Andre Breton
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
7 more quotes from Walter Bagehot
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
29 more wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
19 other quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
26 views 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 views from Harriet Ann Jacobs
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
26 more thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
2 other thoughts from Georges Simenon
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
45 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
There is no forgiveness in nature.
2 sayings from Ugo Betti
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
5 thoughts 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 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 other views from Charles Darwin
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
2 more quotes 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
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
47 quotes 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 more thoughts 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 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Langston Hughes
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
26 thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
3 thoughts 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 views from Victor Hugo
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
8 thoughts 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 more thoughts from Charles Darwin
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
32 more 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 thoughts from Arthur Keith
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature abhors a vacuum.
13 more sayings from Francois Rabelais
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
17 more quotes from Leo Buscaglia
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
105 more views from Albert Einstein
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
17 other 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 other 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 views from Tennessee Williams
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
3 quotes from Josef Albers
Gossip is nature's telephone.
3 more quotes from Sholom Aleichem
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
12 other quotes from Julius Caesar
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
16 quotes from Michelangelo
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
2 other quotes from Alan Hovhaness
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
105 views from Albert Einstein
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
4 more sayings from Jean Ingelow
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 wisdom & wit from Luther Burbank
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
105 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
Nature never breaks her own laws.
27 thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
21 quotes 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 thoughts 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 other views from Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
16 more quotes from David Hume
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
21 more 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 views 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 other 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 quotes from William Hazlitt
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
38 wisdom & wit 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 views 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 sayings from William Hazlitt
Water is the driving force of all nature.
27 views 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 more quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
25 other quotes from Charles Baudelaire
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 other 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 other quotes from William Shakespeare
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
17 views 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 wisdom & wit from John Burroughs
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
13 other sayings from John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go.
13 quotes from John Muir
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
38 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 more 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 more views from Marcus Aurelius
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
8 more 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 thoughts 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 views from William Wordsworth
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
16 more thoughts 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 more 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 quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
5 other sayings 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 sayings 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 sayings from Anatole France
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
81 views from William Shakespeare
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
30 other quotes from Walt Whitman
Earth laughs in flowers.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
30 thoughts from Walt Whitman
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
3 views from Hal Borland
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
35 thoughts from Rabindranath Tagore
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
43 thoughts 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
43 sayings 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 quotes 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 other sayings from Joseph Butler
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
43 other quotes from Alexander Pope
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
3 thoughts 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 more thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit from Honore de Balzac
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
15 more thoughts 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 more quotes from Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
43 more sayings from Alexander Pope
Nature hates calculators.
135 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Novalis
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
53 more views 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 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
14 sayings from Arthur Conan Doyle
Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
15 views from Orson Welles
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
3 other quotes from Richard P. Feynman
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
43 views from Alexander Pope
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
22 other views from Soren Kierkegaard
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
43 thoughts from Alexander Pope
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
135 views 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 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit 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 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is art? Nature concentrated.
53 other quotes 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 other thoughts from Hal Borland
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
14 other views from Thomas Hardy
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
53 other quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
57 more views from Blaise Pascal
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
17 more views from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
6 quotes 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 views 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 more quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
58 other wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
12 quotes from Marquis de Sade
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
31 wisdom & wit from Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
31 other sayings from Helen Keller
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.
14 sayings from Thomas Hardy
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
15 thoughts from Pierre Corneille
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
12 more wisdom & wit from Marquis de Sade
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Human nature is above all things lazy.
7 thoughts from Harriet Beecher Stowe
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
15 more wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
57 other thoughts from Blaise Pascal
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
57 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 views from William Ralph Inge
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
12 more sayings from Marquis de Sade
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
9 quotes 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 other sayings from Marshall McLuhan
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
27 quotes from Dave Barry
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
45 sayings from Aldous Huxley
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
31 more thoughts from Eric Hoffer
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
2 more quotes from Camille Pissarro
Great art picks up where nature ends.
5 quotes 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 quotes from Marcel Proust
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
6 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 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
3 wisdom & wit from John Paul Jones
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
8 thoughts 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 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
8 more quotes 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 quotes 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 other sayings from Iris Murdoch
People must help one another it is nature's law.
15 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
117 more views 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 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
19 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Luc de Clapiers
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
2 more quotes 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 views 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
Land really is the best art.
18 wisdom & wit from Andy Warhol
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
5 more views from Ingrid Bergman
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.
4 sayings 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 other sayings from Roger Tory Peterson
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
3 more sayings from Rupert Brooke
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
8 other quotes from Maria Mitchell
Hidden nature is secret God.
2 wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit from Max Beerbohm
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
9 quotes 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 views from Coco Chanel
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
19 other views 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 sayings from Kin Hubbard
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
6 thoughts from Malcolm De Chazal
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
21 wisdom & wit 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 other sayings 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 more views 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 sayings from Samuel Johnson
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
10 other thoughts from Taylor Caldwell
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
15 more sayings from Cyril Connolly
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
63 more thoughts from Samuel Johnson
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
4 sayings from William Howard Taft
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
2 quotes from Michael Faraday
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
21 other quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts 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 quotes from John Cage
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
2 quotes from Ellsworth Huntington
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
24 more quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
Nature is neutral.
24 quotes 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 views from Denis Diderot
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
30 other sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
16 quotes from Wallace Stevens
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
16 other wisdom & wit from Wallace Stevens
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
19 other sayings from John Keats
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
24 other quotes 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 more views 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 wisdom & wit from James Whitcomb Riley
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
8 thoughts from Thomas Browne
The good man is the friend of all living things.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
19 views from John Keats
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
13 other views from e. e. cummings
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
16 thoughts from Wallace Stevens
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
9 more thoughts from Hannah Arendt
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
11 wisdom & wit from Graham Greene
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
16 views from Wallace Stevens
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
4 more quotes 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 more sayings from Niels Bohr
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
8 other quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes from Napoleon Hill
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
52 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Augustine of Hippo
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
4 quotes from Antonio Porchia
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
5 other quotes from William C. Bryant
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
5 other views 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 wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
5 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Jimi Hendrix
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
6 views from Norman MacCaig
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
14 more quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
78 other views from Voltaire
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
My nature just changes.
22 more views from Jimi Hendrix
Nature has always had more force than education.
78 views from Voltaire
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
25 sayings from Will Durant
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
12 other sayings from William Cowper
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
18 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 sayings from Baruch Spinoza
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.
14 wisdom & wit from Laurence Sterne
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
52 views from Albert Camus
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
78 thoughts from Voltaire
The groves were God's first temples.
5 more 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 other sayings from James Allen
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
14 wisdom & wit from Muhammad Iqbal
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
12 quotes from William Cowper
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
4 quotes 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 other 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 wisdom & wit from Clarence Day
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
10 sayings 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 thoughts from C. S. Lewis
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
18 views from Baruch Spinoza
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
19 more quotes from Jonathan Swift
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
7 more wisdom & wit from Edvard Munch
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
75 other thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
68 thoughts 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 quotes 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 sayings from Paracelsus
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
46 thoughts 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 quotes from Jane Austen
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
2 other quotes from Werner Heisenberg
You can't just let nature run wild.
23 other quotes from Walt Disney
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
26 other sayings from Emily Dickinson
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
7 views 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 wisdom & wit 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 sayings 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 thoughts from Walt Disney
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
4 more 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 wisdom & wit from John Milton
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
12 other sayings 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 thoughts from George Santayana
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
18 thoughts from Margaret Mead
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
23 thoughts from Walt Disney
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
9 quotes from Willa Cather
If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.
58 views 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 other views from George MacDonald
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
3 thoughts from Frank B. Kellogg
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
12 quotes from Mao Zedong
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
23 more quotes from Henry Miller
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
2 quotes from Werner Heisenberg
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
5 quotes from Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
24 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
15 sayings from Moliere
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
67 sayings 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 more quotes from Tacitus
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
2 wisdom & wit from Anne Bronte
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
23 sayings 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 more quotes from Dante Alighieri
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
20 other quotes from Thomas Aquinas
By nature, men love newfangledness.
6 views 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 quotes 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 quotes from Paul Cezanne
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
26 other quotes from E. M. Forster
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
9 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Patricia Highsmith
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
23 views 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 quotes 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 more thoughts from Alexander Hamilton
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
19 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Zane Grey
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
29 wisdom & wit 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 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
Nature is the art of God.
13 more thoughts from Dante Alighieri
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
6 more thoughts from William Lyon Phelps
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
10 wisdom & wit from Tertullian
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.
10 more wisdom & wit from John Donne
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.
23 views from Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
23 quotes from Paul Cezanne
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
30 quotes 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 other thoughts from Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
67 more sayings 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 other sayings 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 sayings from W. Somerset Maugham
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
40 other 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
23 other sayings from Paul Cezanne
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
3 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Isaac Asimov
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
37 quotes 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 other quotes from Paul Cezanne
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
20 other quotes 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 other quotes from Orison Swett Marden