Quotes About Nature

'Tis the last rose of summer,Left blooming alone;All her lovely companionsAre faded and gone.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.

Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed.

The rain grew louder, the gutters talking to the downspouts.

Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds; and it is such as to be comprehensible to such beings. Ultimately therefore such beings should be comprehensible to themselves.

Persons and other conscious beings are part of the natural order, and their mental states are part of the way the world is in itself.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made theeTo temper man: we had been brutes without you;Angels are painted fair, to look like you.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

Man, were he not corrupted by governments, is naturally the friend of man, and . . . human nature is not of itself vicious.

The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of heredetary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.