Nature Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

A bird perched on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking. Her trust is in her wings.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.