977 private quotes tagged nature

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

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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” — Alexander Pope

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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 violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” — Tennessee Williams

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“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.” — Lord Byron

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“Nature is not human hearted.” — Lao Tzu

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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” — Victor Hugo

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“For greed all nature is too little.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.” — Francis Bacon

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“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.” — Franz Liszt

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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” — Anne Frank

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“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!” — Charles Darwin

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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” — Carl Reiner

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“Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.” — Joel Osteen

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“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” — Galileo Galilei

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“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” — Thomas Merton

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“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” — Rose Kennedy

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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.” — Marcus Garvey

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“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.” — Donna Leon

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