Nature Quotes

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history… — Hannah Arendt
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by… — Aristotle
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by… — Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but… — Aristotle
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to… — Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of… — Aristotle
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my… — Neil Armstrong
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his… — Neil Armstrong
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. — Andrea Arnold
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov

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