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Nature Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
- It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape…
- What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
- The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away…
- This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from…
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