Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Nature

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I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Michel de Montaigne

Death, Nature, Garden

Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Rivers, Earth Day

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Michel de Montaigne

Sweet, Nature, Prudent

Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.399

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Kindness, Animal

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Mean, Science

Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

Michel de Montaigne

Art, Nature, Should

Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Experience, Littles

Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Law, Action

Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”