Children Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the…

— James Anthony Froude

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

— Ruth Ozeki

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have.

— Richard P. Feynman

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that…

— Napoleon Hill

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

— Jeanette Winterson

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

— Seneca the Younger

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

— Victor Hugo

We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can…

— G. M. Trevelyan

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits,…

— Aristotle

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

— Stephen Jay Gould