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Nature Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
- Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen…
- The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents…
- There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which…
- Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
- Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
- I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire…
- Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
- I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire…
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