Books Quote by Gertrude Atherton

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

— Alison Lurie

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

— Marquis de Sade

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights,…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite…

— James Parton

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

— Victor Hugo

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

— Seneca the Younger

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is…

— Jean Stafford