N Quotes
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“Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.”
“Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.”
“Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.”
“Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.”
“Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers, Has in her heart a place for every weed; For her quick eyes require no microscope To note the varied wonders and delights That the Creator's humblest works possess.”
“Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.”
“Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.”
Source: The works
“Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.”
“Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.”
“Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.”
Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“Nature works in parallel ways.”
“Nature works to accentuate silence. Man works to fill it.”
“Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.”
“Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.”
“Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.”
“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.”
“Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.”
“Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.”
Source: Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition
“Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.”
Source: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“Nature's bank-dividends.”
“Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.”
“Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.”
“Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.”
“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.”
“Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.”
“Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.”
“Nature's first great title--mind.”
Source: Gems: Principally from the Antique
“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
Source: Robert Frost's New England
“Nature's first green is gold.”
Source: Robert Frost's New England
“Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.”
“Nature's great book is written in mathematics.”
“Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”
“Nature's hasty conscience.”
Source: Works
“Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.”
“Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.”
“Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.”
“Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!”
Source: Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns
“Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.”
“Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.”
Source: Nativity. Poems
“Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.”
“Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.”
“Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”
“Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.”