Nature Quotes - Page 72

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

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

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.