Nature Quotes · Page 457

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

— William Shakespeare

“Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.”

— João Mendes

That kind of natural understanding doesn't develop naturally

— Kenny Cunningham

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

— Michael Pollan

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.

— Andre Lhote

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

— Hugh Miller

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

— Anonymous

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct…

— Samuel Adams

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard…

— Emily Dickinson

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the…

— Joni Mitchell

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

— William Hazlitt

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural…

— Charles Francis Richter

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was…

— Albert Camus

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an…

— Antoine Lavoisier

He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so…

— Marie Lu

I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in…

— Lebbeus Woods

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full…

— William James

“How little is requisite to supply the necessities of nature? And in a view to pleasure, what comparison between the unbought satisfaction…

— David Hume

“Why this cult of wilderness? Why the surly hatred of progress and development, the churlish resistance to all popular improvements? Very well,…

— Edward Abbey

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those…

— Robinson Jeffers

“Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

— David Bowie

“Even the wind carries the memory of forests long gone.”

— Lawrence Nault

Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

— Jermaine Fowler

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.

— Georgia Toffolo

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

— Richard Rohr

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

— Michael Faraday

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

— Caspar David Friedrich

“Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogical.”

— Navessa Allen

“The floor was slick with oil, the blood of the earth, time’s distillate, compressed by a planet.”

— Justin Cronin

God is the artist, nature is his canvas, and I'm just the admirer of his work.

— Elizabeth Homp

“That was laughter-a natural eruption of good humor that occurs when people are amused.”

— Carla Kelly

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

— Mason Cooley