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Nature Quotes


"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."


"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."


"I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged."



"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."


"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."


"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."


"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."


"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."


"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."


"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."


"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."


"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."


"Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise."


"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."


"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."


"I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow."


"The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly."


"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature."


"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."


"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."


"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."


"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet."


"Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful."


"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."


"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."


"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."
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