Nature Quotes - page 4

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! (Charles Darwin)
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. View quote
Cory Doctorow
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. View quote
Michael Pollan
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. View quote
William Henry Harrison
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. View quote
Thomas Paine
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. View quote
William Hazlitt
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. View quote
William Hazlitt
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Nature abhors a vacuum. View quote
François Rabelais
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. (Henry David Thoreau)
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. View quote
J. P. Donleavy
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. View quote
Bolesław Prus
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. View quote
Herbert Spencer
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. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. View quote
James Frazer
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. View quote
Montesquieu
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. (J. M. W. Turner)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. View quote
Edmund Burke
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
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