Quotes about nature
nature law purpose
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. Alfred Austin
nature silly intelligent
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess
nature literature trembling
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. Andre Gide
nature return elements
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
nature believe law
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France
nature men he-man
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
nature evil literature
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
nature believe healing
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank
nature believe simple
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
nature mess
Mess with nature and it will mess right back ... Anita Roddick
nature people protect speak
I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct. Sophia Bush
nature men battle
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side E. F. Schumacher
nature men fellow-man
We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature...
nature time winds
We'll let nature take its course, and time will tell where he winds up.
nature civilization wrecks
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. Richard Bach
nature blow tree
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow. Robert Frost
nature kings situation
For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
nature machinery whole
For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
nature war men
There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....
nature optimism climbing-trees
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
nature hints
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
nature genius action
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. Robert Blair
nature golf eggs
If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls. Robert Benchley
nature children scary
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. Thornton Wilder
nature motivation vicious
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine
nature blood voice
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
nature men information
Man must go back to nature for information.
nature rain science
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes. Thomas Huxley
nature men
Man's Place in Nature.
nature theology absurdity
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
nature teaching self
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
nature rocks water
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths. Thomas Cole
nature art perfection
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.