3 December 2020 Lord Acton Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
3 December 2020 H. P. Blavatsky The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
3 December 2020 Salvador Dali Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature’s ecosystems.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
3 December 2020 George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
3 December 2020 Marcel Proust Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature.
3 December 2020 Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
3 December 2020 Clarence Day We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
3 December 2020 Thor Heyerdahl I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
3 December 2020 Zora Neale Hurston It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you’re wonderful every time you do something I think that’s human nature.
3 December 2020 David Hockney To me, the world’s rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.