Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Rivers, Earth Day

• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Experience, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

• I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Nature, Garden

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

• We cannot fail in following nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Failing, Following

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1084, 谷月社

• Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sweet, Nature, Prudent

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.399

• But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Art, Nature

• Habit is second nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Habit

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

• There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Kindness, Animal

• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

• If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Nature, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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