977 private quotes tagged nature

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” — William Shakespeare

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“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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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“The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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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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“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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“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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

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

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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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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

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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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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” — Aristotle

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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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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” — George Eliot

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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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“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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