nature quotes

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

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“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

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ”

— Stephen Hawking

“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”

— Stephen Hawking

“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”

— Horace

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ”

— Coco Chanel

“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. ”

— Karl Marx

“Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“What is art? Nature concentrated. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart”

— Honore de Balzac

“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature abhors annihilation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I love not man the less, but Nature more. ”

— Lord Byron

“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”

— Lord Byron

“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“No speech can stain what is noble by nature. ”

— Sophocles

“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.”

— Sophocles

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

— Victor Hugo

“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”

— Victor Hugo