Quotes About Nature

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature.

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.

Mon ami , let this be a lesson to you. You are a man . Behave, then, like a man ! It is against Nature for a man to grovel. Women and Nature have almost exactly the same reactions! Remember it is better to take the largest plate within reach and fling it at a woman's head than it is to wriggle like a worm whenever she looks at you!

What alchemy there was in human beings.

I love autumn. It's so much richer than spring.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

Human nature is full of inconsistencies

Things are simple as a rule

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.