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| All konst är en efterapning av naturen | Lucius Annæus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65 f.Kr.) |
| Alla vill tillbaka till naturen, bara de slipper gå till fots. | Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) |
| Att leva i djupet av oceanerna är omöjligt för allt levande. Bara död materia kan leva under sådant tryck. | Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) |
| Bakterier uppför sig smartare än människor. | Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) |
| Bor du bredvid en fors, hör du den inte. | Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) |
| De säger att Sverige är vackert på vintern. Hur vet dom det? Då är ju Sverige täckt av snö! | Tage Danielsson (1928-1985) |
| Den har inte själ som inte tror att naturen är en öppen bok. | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Den mest underhållande fläcken på jordens yta är för oss det mänskliga anletet. | Robert Lynd (1879-1949) |
| Det finns ingenting där fåglar skiljer sig mer från människan än i förmågan att bygga och ändå lämna landskapet orört. | Robert Lynd (1879-1949) |
| Det finns många exempel på att naturen automatiskt kompenserar olika brister. Den som ser dåligt med ett öga, brukar ha bättre synskärpa på det andra, och om en person har ett ben som är för kort så är ofta det andra benet en smula längre. | Ludvig Holberg |
| Det finns två naturkrafter som inte går att stoppa: laviner och killar med gitarr. | Ludvig Holberg |
| Det är klart att industrin förstört många älvar. Å andra sidan, vilka kontorslandskap har det inte byggts! | Ludvig Holberg |
| Det är mycket underligt i naturen. | Ludvig Holberg |
| Det är obegripligt att man inte försöker hålla jorden ren - vi ska ju alla ned i den. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Det är tur att vi har gravitation, för annars skulle fåglar som dog stanna kvar i skyn och förvirra alla jägare. | Steven Wright (1955-) |
| En grop är ingenting alls, men man kan ändå bryta nacken i den. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| En slätt är egentligen inget annat än ett mycket platt berg. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Enligt biologen finns det överallt ändamål utan ända och mål. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Ett träd är ett träd - Hur många fler behöver ni titta på? | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Fram till nu har det varit människan mot Naturen; nu kommer det att vara människan mot sig egen natur. | Dennis Gabor (1900-1979) |
| För att kunna behärska naturen måste man lyda den | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| För att kunna behärska naturen måste man lyda den. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Grönområde: den plats där föräldrar rekreerar sig medan barnen är i stan och roar sig. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Huka er grabbar, skymningen faller! | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| I naturen blir aldrig något rätt, om det mot förmodan blir rätt är något fel. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| I naturen finns varken belöning eller straff - bara konsekvenser. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Ingenting är ont som sker i samförstånd med naturen | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Låt naturen ha sin gång - den vet bäst själv. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Mamma, kila ned med kaktusen, för Anna ville sitta i det gröna. | Rembrandt (1606-1669) |
| Min mor var gyttjebrotterska och min far tvättmedelsfabrikant. Där ser vi ett exempel på naturens ständiga strävan efter utjämning. | Rembrandt (1606-1669) |
| Måleriet är naturens barnbarn. Det är besläktat med Gud. | Rembrandt (1606-1669) |
| Naturen avskyr tomrum. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Naturen gör aldrig några misstag: skapar den en dumbom så menar den det. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Naturen är aldrig banal. | Johannes V. Jensen |
| Naturen är bättre än genomsnittsläkaren. | Ordspråk från Kina |
| Naturen är en läkande kraft | Hippokrates |
| Naturens tempel är himlen. | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Träd är dina värdefullaste antikviteter. | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| Träskmarker är alltid obehagliga, synnerligen om man sitter fast i dem. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Tusen solars strålglans lyser ur ditt väsen, tusen svalg och tusen ögon skymtar där. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Ur miljösynpunkt är människan helt oskadlig endast i ett avseende - hon är biologiskt nedbrytbar. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Vetenskapens mål är att bygga bättre musfällor. Naturens mål är att bygga bättre möss. | Mikal Rode |
| Vi behöver lära oss att förstå naturen - Annars kan vi inte lura den | Mikal Rode |
| Vi har alltid vägrat att leva efter reglerna, varför skulle vi då börja oroa oss för att världen inte behandlar oss efter reglerna? | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Vi kan inte leda naturen om vi inte samtidigt lyder den. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Översvämningar är naturens sätt att återställa vätskebalansen. | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) |
| The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose. | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) |
| Nature made him, and then broke the mold | Ariosto (1474-1533) |
| The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. | Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) |
| There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole. | Bill Wulf |
| The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man | Bliss Carman (1861-1929) |
| It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity | Buddha, Sutta-Pitaka |
| If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. | Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-) |
| Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. | Dave Foreman |
| It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. | David Bailey (1938-) |
| One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor [but] nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. | Dr. Charles Brenton Huggins |
| My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. | Edward Hopper (1882-1967) |
| Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. | Edward O. Wilson (1929-) |
| For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm | Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) |
| Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. | Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) |
| Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light | Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) |
| A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I, too, will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. | Fiona Macleod |
| Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom | Francis Picabia (1879-1953) |
| Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. | Hal Borland (1900-1978) |
| Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living | Henri Poincare (1854-1912) |
| The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach | Henry Beston |
| Nature puts me out | Henry Fuseli |
| However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. | Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) |
| Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. | Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) |
| Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. | Jacques Lipchitz (1891-) |
| To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano | James Whistler (1834-) |
| I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. | John Glenn (1921-) |
| The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws. | John Joseph Lynch |
| I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree | Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) |
| You are one of the forces of nature. | Jules Michelet (1798-1874) |
| The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35-95) |
| The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. | Morris K. Udall (1922-1998) |
| After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies. | Samuel Rutherford |
| Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? | Solomon Short |
| I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. | Steve McQueen (1930-1980) |
| Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. | Theodore Roszak |
| The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness. | Therese of Lisieux |
| The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout | Thomas Erskine |
| The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| Man is nature's sole mistake. | William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) |
| Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street | William Shockley (1910-1989) |
| The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy | Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) |
| Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write | Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) |
| Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals. Nature uses both kingdoms to form all existing combustible mat | Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) |
| Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. | Brigham Young (1801-1877) |
| Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. | Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) |
| Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. | Dan Quisenberry (1950-1998) |
| I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. | Edward Steichen (1879-1973) |
| In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation | Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) |
| Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. | Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) |
| A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. | Hal Borland (1900-1978) |
| Everything in excess is opposed to nature. | Hippocrates |
| Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel | Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) |
| Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. | Jonas Salk (1914-1995) |
| Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. | Josiah Gilbert Holland |
| I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. | Julius Caesar (102 f.Kr.-44 f.Kr.) |
| Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death | Lucretius |
| If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. | Luther Burbank (1849-1926) |
| Nature provides exceptions to every rule. | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |
| None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. | Marian Anderson (1902-1993) |
| Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. | Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) |
| Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. | Marilyn French (1929-) |
| Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away | Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) |
| Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Nature is a petrified magic city. | Novalis (1772-1801) |
| Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. | Olivia Newton-John (1948-) |
| We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness. | Therese of Lisieux |
| Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. | Hal Borland (1900-1978) |
| To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God | Henri Poincare (1854-1912) |
| If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living | Henri Poincare (1854-1912) |
| Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm | Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) |
| Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. | Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) |
| Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak | Epictetus (55-135) |
| What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach | Henry Beston |
| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Nature is neutral. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, / where I sow my words daily: and you know, / these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, / moving along the waterways / and four seasons of the faithful sun. | Alamgir Hashmi |
| Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. | Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) |
| What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Trees are your best antiques | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| Nature, red in tooth and claw. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man | Bliss Carman (1861-1929) |
| In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. | Boethius |
| Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. | Daniel Quinn |
| Nature is the art of God | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven’t a single doubt. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. | E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) |
| Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. | Edward Young (1683-1765) |
| How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| A healthy nature needs no God or immortality | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy. | George MacDonald (1824-) |
| The family is one of nature's masterpieces. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living | Henri Poincare (1854-1912) |
| A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is nature's characteristic ability to naturally select species not the most perfect decision maker we humans have access to on this issue? Just as we expect human children to respect their human elders, let us humans collectively respect our significant elder--Nature. | Ivan Urlaub |
| Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| People must help one another; it is nature's law. | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Spring makes everything young again, save man | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
| For the nature of women is closely allied to art | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. | John Burroughs (1837-1921) |
| It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. | John Cheever (1912-1982) |
| The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. | John Milton (1608-1674) |
| If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy. | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) |
| Nature is not human hearted. | Lao Tzu |
| Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| I love not man the less, but Nature more. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Nothing is evil which is according to nature. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. | Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) |
| If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than any knowledge of our fellow beings. We were bred of the earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without our mothers or our fathers or any other kin or friend, or even human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in man’s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men. | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-) |
| Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Nature did all things well. | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
| That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. | Mother Teresa (1910-1997) |
| Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such - the judgment of death | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Nature is always behind the age | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| A tree is best measured when it's down | Proverb |
| Nature is better than a middling doctor. | Proverb |
| He can't see the forest for the trees | Proverb |
| He that followeth Nature is never out of his way | Proverb |
| The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Flowers are the earth laughing. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A man is related to all nature. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) |
| I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them. | Richard Byrd |
| Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. Love all living things whose humble task is not opposed in any way to yours, to ours: men with simple hearts, honest, without vanity and malice, and all the animals, because they are beautiful, without exception and without exception indifferent to whatever "idea" there may be. Love them, and you will see the eternal in the glance of their eyes of jet, amber, or emerald. Love also the trees, the plants, the water that runs though the meadow and on to the sea without knowing where it goes; love the mountain, the desert, the forest, the immense sky, full of light or full of clouds; because all these exceed man and reveal the eternal to you. | Savitri Devi |
| Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person. | Shane Pliska |
| Sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| Stuff the economy, Go hug a tree instead. | Thomas Murray |
| One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage? | Vanna Bonta |
| I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. | Viggo Mortensen (1958-) |
| Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again. | Vikas Khanna |
| But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| You can't just let nature run wild. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride. | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke | William Congreve (1670-1729) |
| Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union. | William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) |
| My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Great floods have flown from simple sources. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Our foster-nurse of nature is repose | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Nature never did betray The heart that loved her | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |