Nature Quotes

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Samuel Johnson

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

Victor Hugo

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

George Mallory

I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.

Henry David Thoreau

Fishes live in the sea, as men do aland; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Philip James Bailey

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.

Aristotle

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

Gil Stern

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Bertrand Russell

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

Albert Camus

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Marcus Aurelius

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Aeschylus