Nature Quotes

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Xun Zi

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Marquis de Sade

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Marcus Aurelius

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Lao Tzu

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Marco Rubio

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

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

Jimmy Carter

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Bernoulli

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Franz Kafka

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Mahatma Gandhi

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Woody Allen

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman