Nature Quotes - Page 14

• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Way

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• There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Weed, Environmental, Presidents Day

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.120, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Garden

  Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Power, Men, Submissive

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Knowledge, Given, Seeds

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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• It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Nature And Environment, Knows, Universe

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• I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Humility, Compassion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

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• "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Leaving, Woods

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Desire

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

  Emma Goldman

  Names, Crime, Poor

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Mean, Names

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.28

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• For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

  John Dryden

  Art, Missing, May

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.194

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• For the nature of women is closely allied to art

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 1, 1808.

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• [A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

  David Hume

  Art, Mortification, Equal

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.197

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• Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Law, House

  Erasmus Darwin (1800). “Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough”, p.556

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• God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

  James Martineau

  Agency, Law, Energy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 431), 1895.

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• The natural alone is permanent.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Natural, Permanent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.59

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• Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Lord, Vicars, Almighty

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1977). “The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition”, p.481, Penguin

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• The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Self, Environmental, Adequate

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• We must return to nature and nature's god.

  Luther Burbank

  Environmental, Return, Comeback

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• Human nature is not of itself vicious.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Vicious, Humans

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.166, Ravenio Books

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• Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

  Aristotle

  Art, Environment, Deficiency

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• [T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Eye, Men

  Alexander Pope, “Essay On Man”

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• A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
  And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
  And it opened its fan
  like leaves to the light,
  and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sunset, Kissing, Night

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.254

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• By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

  George Santayana

  Men, Questions And Answers, Disposition

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.86, MIT Press

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