Failure Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“Nature often allows a person only one mistake.”

— Pamela Sargent

“Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls.”

— Halford John Mackinder

“Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.”

— John Smelcer

“Mother Nature had made an appalling error of judgement.”

— Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

“Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.”

— Aldous Huxley

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

— Samuel Beckett

“...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.”

— Dan Riskin

“Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Nature is not designed to satisfy our personal longings. Nature is what she is, and it’s a privilege merely to be privy to her…

— John Brockman

“It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end.”

— Emma Donoghue

“nature optimizes for the whole, not for the individual, but most people judge good and bad based only on how it affects them.”

— Ray Dalio