Nature Like Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

• The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
• Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. — Benjamin Disraeli
• Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Joseph Prestwich
• All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in… — Andre Bazin
• The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of… — Lewis Mumford
• Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind… — William J. Clinton
• Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
• Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons. — Edward Abbey
• Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two… — Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
• Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing… — Friedrich Engels
• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of… — Rutherford B. Hayes
• Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. — Heinrich Heine
• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil… — Plutarch
• Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from… — Laozi
• The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative,… — Russell Kirk
• The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. — Louis Aragon
• Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings… — Jim Woodring
• Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. — Victor Hugo

Who Wrote These Nature Like Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 30 Nature Like Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Nature Like Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Plutarch
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Laozi
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Russell Kirk
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Louis Aragon
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Jim Woodring
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Emily Dickinson
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Joseph Smith, Jr.
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Diane Ackerman
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Louisa May Alcott
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Michael Chabon
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Kenneth R. Miller
• 1 Nature Like Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Nature Like Quote by James Lafferty
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Joseph Prestwich
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Andre Bazin
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Lewis Mumford
• 1 Nature Like Quote by William J. Clinton
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
• 1 Nature Like Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton