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"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

Janet Morris, Chris Morris

Fate, Passion, Nature, Destiny, Reproduction
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A man is related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
3

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

Nature
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

Nature
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All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Nature
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Alexander Pope

Nature
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All nature wears one universal grin.

Henry Fielding

Nature
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Thomas Browne

Nature
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

Nature
10

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

Bruce Barton

Nature
11

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Nature
12

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Hosea Ballou

Nature
13

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
14

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

Nature
15

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Khalil Gibran

Nature
16

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Olive Schreiner

Nature
17

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Bob Dylan

Nature
18

I am at two with nature.

Woody Allen

Nature
19

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Nature
20

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

Nature
21

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Albert Camus

Nature
22

If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.

Seneca the Younger

Nature
23

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
24

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature
25

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Karl Marx

Nature
26

Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature
27

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature
28

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Pearl S. Buck

Nature
29

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature
30

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nature
31

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison

Nature
32

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Nature
33

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

Nature
34

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature
35

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
36

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Maya Angelou

Nature
37

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

Nature
38

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Susan Sontag

Nature
39

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

William Cowper

Nature
40

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
41

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Eric Hoffer

Nature
42

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
43

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

Nature
44

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

Nature
45

Nature is not human hearted.

Laozi

Nature
46

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

Nature
47

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Francis Picabia

Nature
48

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

Nature
49

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

Nature
50

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

Nature
51

Nature surpasses nurture.

Nature
52

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature
53

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Luigi Pirandello

Nature
54

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature
55

Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
56

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Nature
57

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Emily Dickinson

Nature
58

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

Nature
59

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

Nature
60

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating.

John Ruskin

Nature
61

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nature
62

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Raoul Vaneigem

Nature
63

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

Nature
64

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

William Wordsworth

Nature
65

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Lydia Child

Nature
66

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Anne Frank

Nature
67

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein

Nature
68

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

Nature
69

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature
70

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Victor Hugo

Nature
71

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
72

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin

Nature
73

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

Nature
74

The sun will set without thy assistance.

Nature
75

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

Nature
76

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature
77

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

Nature
78

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
79

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

Immanuel Kant

Ethics, Nature
80

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Mark Twain

Nature
81

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature
82

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nature
83

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature
84

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

Henry van Dyke

Nature
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

Nature

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"Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise."

A man is related to all nature.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.

All men by nature desire to know.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

All nature wears one universal grin.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

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.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

I am at two with nature.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature is commanded by obeying her.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Nature is not human hearted.

Nature is the art of God.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Nature surpasses nurture.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.