Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France on nature
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France on nature
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Francis Bacon on nature
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations. Paul Cezanne on nature
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. Samuel Johnson on nature
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. Alexander Pope on nature
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Denis Diderot on nature
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. Alexander Pope on nature
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir on nature
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka on nature
Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on nature
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson on nature
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. Max Beerbohm on nature
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. Neil Young on nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Alexander Pope on nature
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. Alexander Pope on nature
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! Alexander Pope on nature
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf on nature
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Ansel Adams on nature
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne on nature