977 private quotes tagged nature

“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our b-----s for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.” — Honore de Balzac

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“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” — Pat Buckley

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“My nature just changes.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” — E. O. Wilson

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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.” — Margaret Cavendish

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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.” — Denis Diderot

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“Your nature is the Buddha.” — Bodhidharma

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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” — Joyce Kilmer

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“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.” — Fran Lebowitz

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“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.” — Max Beerbohm

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“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.” — John Ruskin

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“The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.” — William Wordsworth

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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” — David Seabury

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“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.” — John Ruskin

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“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” — John D. Rockefeller

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“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” — Coco Chanel

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