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Nature Quotes by John Steinbeck
- The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he…
- Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.
- In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.
- It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
- It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
- There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature…
- Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house…
- A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a…
- It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
- There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
- The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
- It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better
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