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Nature Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his…
- Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the…
- One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock…
- It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my…
- When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and…
- Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to…
- Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
- Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before…
- It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .
- So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
- How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim…
- To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
- ...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and…
- In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer…
More Nature Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle