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Nature Quotes


"A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work"

Full 'Louis Nizer' Quote   Source: Louis Nizer
"thought of as a slightly benighted child of nature who somehow or other did..."

Full 'Maxwell Anderson' Quote   Source: Maxwell Anderson
"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."

Full 'Joshua Reynolds' Quote   Source: Joshua Reynolds
"lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

Full 'Tennessee Williams' Quote   Source: Tennessee Williams
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

Full 'Alexander Pope' Quote   Source: Alexander Pope
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

Full 'Marie Curie' Quote   Source: Marie Curie
"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by..."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature...."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men."

Full 'Alfred Tennyson' Quote   Source: Alfred Tennyson
"represent his fundamental view of man's nature...."

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master;..."

Full 'Dante' Quote   Source: Dante
"but believe not that man changes his nature...."

Full 'Mohammed' Quote   Source: Mohammed
"they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty..."

Full 'Peggy Noonan' Quote   Source: Peggy Noonan
"understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature...."

Full 'Jane Goodall' Quote   Source: Jane Goodall
"Choose only one master - Nature."

Full 'Rembrandt' Quote   Source: Rembrandt
"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not"

Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote   Source: W. Somerset Maugham
"introduce order into the randomness of nature."

Full 'Eric Hoffer' Quote   Source: Eric Hoffer
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out"

Full 'Thomas Hardy' Quote   Source: Thomas Hardy
"Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table's ready.'"

Full 'Robin Williams' Quote   Source: Robin Williams
"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

Full 'Hosea Ballou' Quote   Source: Hosea Ballou
"Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities."

Full 'Marcus Terentius Varro' Quote   Source: Marcus Terentius Varro
"come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have"

Full 'John Updike' Quote   Source: John Updike
"Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity."

Full 'L.A. Safian' Quote   Source: L.A. Safian
"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of"

Full 'Bellamy Brooks' Quote   Source: Bellamy Brooks
"brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote   Source: Henry Ward Beecher
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature"

Full 'Hippocrates' Quote   Source: Hippocrates
"that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so..."

Full 'Walter Savage Landor' Quote   Source: Walter Savage Landor
"questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . ...."

Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote   Source: Carl Sagan
"generation, serious attention to the mind, nature, society, the arts - all..."

Full 'Mark A. Noll' Quote   Source: Mark A. Noll
"Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up."

Full 'Miguel De Cervantes' Quote   Source: Miguel De Cervantes
"Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided."

Full 'William Penn' Quote   Source: William Penn
"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

Full 'Alfred Nobel' Quote   Source: Alfred Nobel
"Newton's head before he took the hint? Nature is always hinting at us. It..."

Full 'Robert Frost' Quote   Source: Robert Frost
"However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in"

Full 'Ivan Turgenev' Quote   Source: Ivan Turgenev
"Human nature has a dual constitution; to hate as well as to love are parts..."

Full 'Sir Arthur Keith' Quote   Source: Sir Arthur Keith
"Human nature is not of itself vicious."

Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote   Source: Thomas Paine
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting..."

Full 'Jane Austen' Quote   Source: Jane Austen
"more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions..."

Full 'Leonardo Davinci' Quote   Source: Leonardo Davinci
"am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

Full 'Desmond Tutu' Quote   Source: Desmond Tutu
"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very..."

Full 'Bob Dylan' Quote   Source: Bob Dylan
"I am not a woman. I am a force of nature."

Full 'Courtney Love' Quote   Source: Courtney Love
"mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we..."

Full 'Nikos Kazantzakis' Quote   Source: Nikos Kazantzakis
"stories and the quest to understand human nature and report back - was part..."

Full 'Hugh Jackman' Quote   Source: Hugh Jackman
"less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her..."

Full 'E. B. White' Quote   Source: E. B. White
"life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these,..."

Full 'John Burroughs' Quote   Source: John Burroughs
"course, for that missing part in their natures, so seek to possess it by..."

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing..."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material..."

Full 'Immanuel Kant' Quote   Source: Immanuel Kant
"the inner things happen, the resurge of nature...."

Full 'Edna O'brien' Quote   Source: Edna O'brien
"In nature there are neither rewards or punishments; there are only"

Full 'George Iles' Quote   Source: George Iles
"reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and..."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk..."

Full 'Henri Matisse' Quote   Source: Henri Matisse
"age is a crime committed against human nature...."

Full 'Lin Yutang' Quote   Source: Lin Yutang
"if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties..."

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

Full 'Anatole France' Quote   Source: Anatole France
"language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to...."

Full 'Vincent Van Gogh' Quote   Source: Vincent Van Gogh
"with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not..."

Full 'Aristotle' Quote   Source: Aristotle
"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives..."

Full 'Philip Sidney' Quote   Source: Philip Sidney
"coincidence that our awakening to the special nature of our world and to..."

Full 'Dixy Lee Ray' Quote   Source: Dixy Lee Ray
"a superstition. It does not exist in nature...."

Full 'Helen Keller' Quote   Source: Helen Keller
"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with"

Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote   Source: Heinrich Heine
"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend..."

Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote   Source: Jimmy Carter
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."

Full 'Truman Capote' Quote   Source: Truman Capote
"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather..."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn..."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature."

Full 'Julia Ward Howe' Quote   Source: Julia Ward Howe
"will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."

Full 'Jessamyn West' Quote   Source: Jessamyn West
"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."

Full 'Confucius' Quote   Source: Confucius
"can achieve little against the power of nature."

Full 'Georg Hegel' Quote   Source: Georg Hegel
"can achieve little against the power of nature."

Full 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel' Quote   Source: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know"

Full 'Saint Augustine' Quote   Source: Saint Augustine
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them...."

Full 'Salvador Dali' Quote   Source: Salvador Dali
"My dream is to save them from nature."

Full 'Christian Dior' Quote   Source: Christian Dior
"unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis..."

Full 'Jack Nicholson' Quote   Source: Jack Nicholson
"Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a..."

Full 'Peggy Noonan' Quote   Source: Peggy Noonan
"hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a..."

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we..."

Full 'Ivan Turgenev' Quote   Source: Ivan Turgenev
"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we"

Full 'Epictetus' Quote   Source: Epictetus
"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you..."

Full 'Maya Angelou' Quote   Source: Maya Angelou
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."

Full 'Anatole France' Quote   Source: Anatole France
"Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and..."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."

Full 'William Cowper' Quote   Source: William Cowper
"Nature is a petrified magic city."

Full 'Novalis' Quote   Source: Novalis
"Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it."

Full 'Ivan Turgenev' Quote   Source: Ivan Turgenev
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

Full 'Francis Bacon' Quote   Source: Francis Bacon
"Nature is the art of God eternal."

Full 'Dante' Quote   Source: Dante
"Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable..."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia
"Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it."

Full 'Josh Billings' Quote   Source: Josh Billings
"Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it."

Full 'Henry Wheeler Shaw' Quote   Source: Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Full 'Francis Bacon' Quote   Source: Francis Bacon
"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying"

Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote   Source: Thornton Wilder
"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

Full 'Johannes Kepler' Quote   Source: Johannes Kepler
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher"

Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote   Source: Luigi Pirandello
"No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in..."

Full 'Tom Watson' Quote   Source: Tom Watson
"No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in..."

Full 'Tom Watson' Quote   Source: Tom Watson
"reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so"

Full 'Epictetus' Quote   Source: Epictetus
"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."

Full 'Henri Rousseau' Quote   Source: Henri Rousseau
"O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes"

Full 'Thomas Otway' Quote   Source: Thomas Otway
"'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I..."

Full 'Man Ray' Quote   Source: Man Ray
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

Full 'Walter Bagehot' Quote   Source: Walter Bagehot
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's"

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God."

Full 'Rembrandt' Quote   Source: Rembrandt
"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science..."

Full 'B F Skinner' Quote   Source: B F Skinner
"Economy you think is an inquiry into the nature and causes of wealth?I..."

Full 'David Ricardo' Quote   Source: David Ricardo
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."

Full 'Edward Young' Quote   Source: Edward Young
"Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important..."

Full 'Marilyn Ferguson' Quote   Source: Marilyn Ferguson
"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

Full 'Virginia Woolf' Quote   Source: Virginia Woolf
"supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her..."

Full 'D H Lawrence' Quote   Source: D H Lawrence
"wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to..."

Full 'Francis Bacon' Quote   Source: Francis Bacon
"cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the..."

Full 'Max Planck' Quote   Source: Max Planck
"takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature?s God."

Full 'Alexander Pope' Quote   Source: Alexander Pope
"Some people connect to nature by viewing mountains or the Grand Canyon...."

Full 'Gary Larson' Quote   Source: Gary Larson
"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of..."

Full 'H. Ross Perot' Quote   Source: H. Ross Perot
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"

Full 'Robin Williams' Quote   Source: Robin Williams
"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others..."

Full 'Thomas Hobbes' Quote   Source: Thomas Hobbes
"accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man...."

Full 'Helen Rowland' Quote   Source: Helen Rowland
"The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and..."

Full 'Michael Caine' Quote   Source: Michael Caine
"can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then..."

Full 'Anne Frank' Quote   Source: Anne Frank
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

Full 'William James' Quote   Source: William James
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

Full 'George Santayana' Quote   Source: George Santayana
"sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through..."

Full 'Mark Twain' Quote   Source: Mark Twain
"virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature...."

Full 'Aristotle' Quote   Source: Aristotle
"The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have..."

Full 'Morris Udall' Quote   Source: Morris Udall
"civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works..."

Full 'Lin Yutang' Quote   Source: Lin Yutang
"such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is..."

Full 'Osho' Quote   Source: Osho
"The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows,..."

Full 'Mary Renault' Quote   Source: Mary Renault
"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power,..."

Full 'Thomas Hobbes' Quote   Source: Thomas Hobbes
"The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really..."

Full 'James Anthony Froude' Quote   Source: James Anthony Froude
"endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina...."

Full 'Ilka Chase' Quote   Source: Ilka Chase
"that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."

Full 'Edith Hamilton' Quote   Source: Edith Hamilton
"its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more...."

Full 'George Gordon' Quote   Source: George Gordon
"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that..."

Full 'John Keats' Quote   Source: John Keats
"gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be..."

Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote   Source: Thomas Mann
"feel more passionate about than Mother Nature, particularly when I see..."

Full 'Woody Harrelson' Quote   Source: Woody Harrelson
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of"

Full 'Ovid' Quote   Source: Ovid
"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most"

Full 'William Cowper' Quote   Source: William Cowper
"the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and..."

Full 'Philip Sidney' Quote   Source: Philip Sidney
"surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are..."

Full 'Ansel Adams' Quote   Source: Ansel Adams
"To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a..."

Full 'James Randi' Quote   Source: James Randi
"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to..."

Full 'Whistler' Quote   Source: Whistler
"Us nature mystics got to stick together."

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer..."

Full 'Jean Giraudoux' Quote   Source: Jean Giraudoux
"other our follies it is the first law of nature...."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty"

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is..."

Full 'Clarence Day' Quote   Source: Clarence Day
"valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature -- are shot down..."

Full 'Herman Hesse' Quote   Source: Herman Hesse
"looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's..."

Full 'Jacques Cousteau' Quote   Source: Jacques Cousteau
"connection with family and friends, and to nature, and to stand up for what..."

Full 'Woody Harrelson' Quote   Source: Woody Harrelson
"that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel..."

Full 'Paul Cezanne' Quote   Source: Paul Cezanne
"approves, Another scorns. And thus his nature Each discloses; You find the..."

Full 'Arthur Guiterman' Quote   Source: Arthur Guiterman
"miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You..."

Full 'Hugh Elliott' Quote   Source: Hugh Elliott
"man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a"

Full 'James Carswell' Quote   Source: James Carswell
"are large powers with little ambition...nature may be said to have fallen..."

Full 'Henry Taylor' Quote   Source: Henry Taylor
"there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress,..."

Full 'J August Strindberg' Quote   Source: J August Strindberg
"humor is imagination operating on good nature...."

Full 'Peggy Noonan' Quote   Source: Peggy Noonan
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within"

Full 'Alfred Tennyson' Quote   Source: Alfred Tennyson
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

Full 'Alfred Tennyson' Quote   Source: Alfred Tennyson
"Work is, by it's very nature, about violence to the spirit as well as the..."

Full 'Studs Terkel' Quote   Source: Studs Terkel
"You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat."

Full 'Renoir' Quote   Source: Renoir
"living very unhappily in battle with nature and its creator?.. My noblest..."

Full 'Beethoven' Quote   Source: Beethoven