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Nature Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a…
- Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming…
- But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to…
- Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?
- Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear…
- It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had…
- The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one…
- I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have…
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