977 private quotes tagged nature

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” — May Sarton

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“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” — Adam Weishaupt

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“Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” — John Updike

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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.” — William Cowper

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“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.” — Dennis Prager

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“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” — Adam Weishaupt

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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” — Wilhelm von Humboldt

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“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.” — Isabel Allende

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“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.” — Bob Dylan

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“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.” — Noam Chomsky

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“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.” — Hannah Arendt

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“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.” — John Dewey

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“I like my home and I like the nature.” — Billy Corgan

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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” — Wendell Berry

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“It's just a part of our nature to hope.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.” — Antonio Porchia

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“For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.” — Liam Neeson

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“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.” — Wallace Stevens

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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.” — Walter Lippmann

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“There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.” — Auguste Rodin

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