977 private quotes tagged nature

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The learned is happy, nature to explore;
The fool is happy, that he knows no more.” — Alexander Pope

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.” — George Eliot

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“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.” — Franz Kafka

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“Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.” — Woody Allen

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking

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“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.” — Plato

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?” — Herman Melville

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“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.” — Thomas Paine

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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” — Jules Verne

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“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.” — Mason Cooley

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“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.” — Francis Bacon

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“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” — John Muir

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“All nature is but art unknown to thee.” — Alexander Pope

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Man is by nature a political animal.” — Aristotle

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“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein

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“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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