Nature Quotes

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

William Henry Harrison

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

David Attenborough

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

James Whitcomb Riley

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Xun Zi

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Helen Rowland

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Henry Fuseli

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

Kahlil Gibran

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Luigi Pirandello

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Thomas Hobbes

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Toni Morrison

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Abraham Lincoln

By nature I'm not a brooder.

Hugh Jackman

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero