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Nature Quotes by Herman Melville
- All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying…
- I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than…
- If not against us, nature is not for us.
- The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
- In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
- Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?
- O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,…
- Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
- It is not down in any map; true places never are.
- Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the…
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