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“Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
John Muir
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
John Muir
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
John Muir
“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
John Muir
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
John Muir
“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”
John Stuart Mill
“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.”
Joel Osteen
“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
Blaise Pascal
“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”
Blaise Pascal
“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
Blaise Pascal
“Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.”
Blaise Pascal
“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.”
Blaise Pascal
“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
Blaise Pascal
“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”
Blaise Pascal
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Blaise Pascal
“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.”
Blaise Pascal
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
Thomas Paine
“Human nature is not of itself vicious.”
Thomas Paine
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.”
Henry Rollins
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
Anne Frank
“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.”
Richard Dawkins
“Natural selection is anything but random.”
Richard Dawkins
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Charles Darwin
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
Charles Darwin
“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.”
James Dean
