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Quotes About Nature

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature
~ Aesop
A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
~ Walker Percy
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
~ Tacitus
Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.
~ Tim Krabbe
People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
~ Vaclav Havel
Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
~ Adolph Gottlieb
Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole.
~ Jude Bijou
No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.
~ Laozi
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
~ John Wilmot
The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.
~ Edward Gibbon
Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.
~ Asher Brown Durand
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
~ Paracelsus
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature
~ Mollie Beattie
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
~ Henry Moore
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.
~ Megan Hart
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
~ George Eliot
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
~ William Whewell
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
~ Publilius Syrus
Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.
~ Marek Edelman
Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.
~ Ayn Rand