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Nature Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us…
- It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
- There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now…
- The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the…
- Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
- Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
- In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by…
- It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,…
- Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the…
- Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of…
- I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
- There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of…
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