N Quotes
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“Nature's never quite
Sure she hasn't erred
In her vague design.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.”
Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson
“Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term”
“Nature's old felicities.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England
“Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.”
“Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.”
Source: The Pelican Island, and other poems
“Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.”
“Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.”
“Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.”
Source: Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species
“Nature's tears are reason's merriment.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy
“Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.”
Source: Tao teh king
“Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.”
“Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.”
Source: Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel
“Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement”
Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object
“Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.”
Source: Works
“Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.”
Source: The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome
“Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.”
“Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.”
Source: The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado
“Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare
“Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.”
“Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.”
“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”
“Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.”
“Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.”
“Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.”
“Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.”
“Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly”
“Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.”
“Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.”
“Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.”
“Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.”
Source: The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
“Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.”
“Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.”
Source: The Recovery of Ideals
“Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.”
Source: The Rhine
“Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.”
“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
Source: Coningsby: Or, The New Generation
“Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.”
Source: Dickinson
“Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.”
Source: Notes on life
“Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.”
Source: The Erasmus Reader
“Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.”
Source: Rousseau/Dufy
“Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.”
“Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.”