977 private quotes tagged nature

“Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“Human nature is not of itself vicious.” — Thomas Paine

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“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” — Samuel Butler

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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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“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

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

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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire

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

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