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Nature Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of…
- Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
- It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
- Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on…
- The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following…
- It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
- ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that…
- The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
- Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world…
- The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
- Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.…
- The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as…
- For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven,…
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