977 private quotes tagged nature

“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?” — Herman Melville

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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” — Jules Verne

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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” — Mason Cooley

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“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.” — Franz Kafka

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“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Man is by nature a political animal.” — Aristotle

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“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.” — Paul Cezanne

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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.” — Walt Whitman

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“Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.” — Plato

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” — Khalil Gibran

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“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato

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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” — Winston Churchill

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“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” — John Mayer

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“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.” — William Hazlitt

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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” — E. E. Cummings

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“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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