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Nature Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
- Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and…
- The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man .…
- To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share…
- But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all…
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of…
- I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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