Nature Quotes

"It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will."
-Sallust

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
-Edmund Burke

"If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
-Charles Darwin

"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited."
-Douglas Adams

"Man... hath by nature a power.... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men."
-John Locke

"...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."
-Isak Dinesen

"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart."
-Confucius

"This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division."
-John Ruskin

"It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding."
-German Proverb

"My dream is to save women from nature."
-Christian Dior

"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."
-John Muir

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
-John Muir

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
-Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-Helen Keller

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
-Baruch Spinoza

"Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being."
-Blaise Pascal

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
-Walter Bagehot

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
-Cicero

"That's always been the nature of the teams in the league. They've earned it, every one of those teams have earned any rankings they might have, because those are three very good defensive football teams."
-Bob Biggs

"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
-Cicero

"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
-Cicero

"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature."
-Adolf Hitler

"We are disappointed to have to postpone our grand opening of Klein Family Field, but you can't fight Mother Nature and this decision had to be made. We do look forward to playing our first game on campus very soon."
-Lynn King

"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
-Joseph Conrad

"The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart."
-John Wooden

"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."
-Cicero