Constant Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore,…

— Thomas Jefferson

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving…

— John Dewey

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception,…

— Aristotle

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

— Anonymous

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature,…

— Anonymous

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

— Ram Dass

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave,…

— Aristotle

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to…

— Aristotle

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful…

— Samuel Johnson

Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature…

— Carl von Essen