Nature Quotes

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Julius Caesar

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Mahatma Gandhi

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Blaise Pascal

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Herbert Simon

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beecher

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Nature is always behind the age

Oscar Wilde

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

Albert Camus

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen