Nature Quotes - page 5

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. (Edward Hopper)
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. View quote
Livy
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. View quote
Joseph Addison
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. View quote
Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. View quote
Joseph Addison
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. View quote
Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. View quote
Joseph Addison
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. (E. O. Wilson)
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. View quote
Samuel Adams
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. View quote
Hans Hofmann
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. View quote
Tacitus
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. View quote
Cyril Connolly
For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance. View quote
Bridget Riley
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. View quote
Lynne Cheney
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. View quote
Maria Mitchell
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. View quote
Orson Welles
I am two with nature. (Woody Allen)
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Art will never be able to exist without nature. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. View quote
Matthew Arnold