977 private quotes tagged nature

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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 least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“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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“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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“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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“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.” — Aristotle

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

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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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“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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“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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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“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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“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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