Nature quotes

“Nature is wont to hide herself.” Heraclitus

“Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.” Quintilian

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.” John Updike

“Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.” Plato

“I am at two with nature.” Woody Allen

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” Marie Curie

“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.” Herbert George Wells

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.” Oscar Wilde

“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.” Cyrano de Bergerac

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” Oscar Wilde

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” Antonio Gaudi

“The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.” Corliss Lamont

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” Voltaire

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” Voltaire

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Nature never breaks her own laws.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” Leonardo da Vinci

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.” Jane Austen

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.” Jane Austen

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” Walt Disney

“The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.” Andre Gide

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” Franklin Roosevelt

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.” Sigmund Freud

“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

“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” Bernard Meltzer

“Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.” Clare Boothe Luce

“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.” Marilyn Monroe