N Quotes
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“Nature hides its secrets in wisdom; the universe hides its secrets in love.”
“Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.”
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
“Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.”
“Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.”
“Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,
By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,
And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D.
“Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.”
“Nature imitates mathematics.”
Source: Indiscrete Thoughts
“Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.”
Source: De rerum natura
“Nature imposes; man disposes”
“Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.”
Source: On photography
“Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.”
Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...
“Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.”
“Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.”
Source: Dracula (Fidia Classics)
“Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.”
“Nature, independent of mind, is devoid of both order and chaos – it is beyond the dualistic battle between order and chaos. We create our own order and chaos, based on our own knacks, desires, beliefs, biases and knowledge, and then we impose that order and chaos upon the reality that we create.”
Source: Mission Reality
“Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.”
“Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.”
“Nature inspires me continually. Today, I can look out my window and see the entire world covered with snow. It's like Narnia under the White Witch.”
“Nature inspires science, science fuels technology, and technology empowers life”
“Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.”
“Nature," instead of representing some pristine category or originary state of being, has taken on an entirely different function ... [it has become nothing more (or less) than an ordering factor--a construct by means of which we attempt to keep technology visible as something separate from our "natural" selves and our everyday lives. In other words, the category "nature," rather than referring to any object or category in the world, is a strategy for maintaining boundaries for political and economic ends, and thus a way of making meaning.”
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.”
“Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.”
“Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.”
“Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them
“Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.”
“Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.”
“Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.”
“Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.”
“Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.”
“Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.”
“Nature is a catchment of sorrows.”
“Nature is a constant reminder of the beauty of consistence, the utility of patience and persistence, the vanity of arrogance, and the necessity of impermanence.”
“Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.”
“Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.”
“Nature is a flowing force,” he said. “You destroy one tree, you create another. Pick one flower, plant another. The ash it turns into becomes fertilizer for another. It is a never-ending turning of a wheel, and there is no ending, or beginning, just constant turning, turning, turning.”
“Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator
“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
“Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!”
“Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain.”