Nature Quotes

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

"Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love."

"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."

"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."

"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."

"To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?"

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."

"You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos."

"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature."

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."

"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."

"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."

"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."

"Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law."

"It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them."

"The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature."

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

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."