977 private quotes tagged nature

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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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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“Nature does nothing in vain.” — Aristotle

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

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“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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“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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“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.” — Edmund Burke

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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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“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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