Nature Quotes

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Sallust

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

The sun will set without thy assistance.

The Talmud

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Aristotle

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Edward Hopper

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

Dominic Monaghan

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Samuel Adams

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

George W. Bush

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Patricia Highsmith

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

Rachel Carson

Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson