Animal Quote by Honore de Balzac

Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel…

— Anonymous

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

— Immanuel Kant

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

— Anonymous

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more…

— David Hume

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

— Joseph Addison

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

— Sarada Devi

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

— Stella Gibbons

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

— Anonymous

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...

— Seneca the Younger

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless…

— Thomas More