Nature Quotes - Page 34

• Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.73, Harvard University Press

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• He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

  Laozi

  Lessons, Patient, Aggressive

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.32, Jain Publishing Company

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• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Worn, Plans

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Endure, Cant, Devilish

  'Journal' p. 47

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• The source of nature is spirit.

  Larry Gates

  Religion, Gardening, Spirit

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• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Two, Age, Majesty

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

  Laozi

  Expectations, Four, Rewards

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• Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

  Laozi

  Moving, Enlightenment, Clarity

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Graves, Womb, His Dark Materials

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Science, Discovery

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• And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

  John Milton

  Son

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.577

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• I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eye, Escaping, Lasts

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• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fate, Peculiar, Answers

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

  E. V. Lucas

  Liars, Hands, House

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Reflection, Landscape, Faces

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Instant, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

  Ezra Pound

  Rags, Paper, Dry

  Cantos no. 45, l. 11 (1937)

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• Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Weakness, Humans, Amiable

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.101

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• TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

  Ambrose Bierce

  Insomnia, Novelists, Disease

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Visible, Bosoms

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

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• What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Rose, Thorns, Approval

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• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

  Aristotle

  Art, Men, Illustration

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Wish, Theatre

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• [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

  George Berkeley

  Cheer, Water, Constitution

  'Siris' (1744) para. 217.

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• Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Mold, Broke, Made

  'Orlando Furioso' (1532) canto 10, st. 84

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