Inspirational Quote by Horace

Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back.

— Horace

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

— Horace

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

— Horace

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

— Horace

“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”

— Horace

“Istam terra de fossam premat, gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet! (As for her, let her be buried deep in earth, and heavy may the…

— Seneca

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

— Richard Taverner

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

— Honore de Balzac