Quotes About History

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Where have all the flowers gone

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.