Nature Quotes - page 6
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
Nature offers simply the germs which education is to develop and perfect.
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.
It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
Far from the sun and summer-gale,
In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid.
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
Friend, bethink you first what it is that you would do, and then what your own nature is able to bear. (104)
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm,
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.