As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. Lord Byron on nature
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. Victor Hugo on nature
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson on nature
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton on nature
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. Victor Hugo on nature
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. Karl Marx on nature
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 on nature
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine on nature
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. Thomas Paine on nature
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright on nature
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. Niels Bohr on nature
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset on nature
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce on nature
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson on nature
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. Carrot Top on nature
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. Niccolo Machiavelli on nature
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 on nature
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on nature
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. Phillips Brooks on nature
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. Billy Corgan on nature