1,011 Quotes Regarding Nature


In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald