top of page
.png){kind=small}
Nature Quotes
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
53
"No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments."
52
"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
52
"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."
52
"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest."
52
"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
52
"It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead."
52
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."
52
"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."
52
"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
52
"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches."
52
"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."
51
"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."
51
"I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."
51
"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."
51
"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies."
51
"Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars."
51
"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another."
51
"There is a great deal of human nature in man."
51
"Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature."
51
"No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind."
51
"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
51
"The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur."
51
"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
51
"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
51
"We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life."
51
"The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem."
50
"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature."
50
"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."
50
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."
50
"For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it."
50
"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."
50
bottom of page