Blessed Quote by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't…

— Gloria Steinem

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

— Alan S. Kesselheim

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

— John Burroughs

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user…

— Eva Figes

“The word nature has given rise to a multitude of errors. Let me repeat that the nature of any being is the sum of…

— Joseph de Maistre

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

— Odilon Redon

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and…

— William McKinley

“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how…

— Henry James

“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)”

— Jerry Z. Muller

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer…

— John Eliot Gardiner

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare