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Nature Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual…
- It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
- Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in…
- The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness…
- Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
- Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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