977 private quotes tagged nature

“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.” — Ansel Adams

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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.” — Carl Sandburg

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“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” — Voltaire

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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” — Charles Darwin

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“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.” — William Shakespeare

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“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.” — Aristotle

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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle

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“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” — Aristotle

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“What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” — James Madison

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“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” — Walt Whitman

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“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” — Martin Luther

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“We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.” — Albert Einstein

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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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