Quotes about Nature
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
— Robert Frost
Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.
— CS Lewis
All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
— Carl Sagan
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
— William Jones
I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine.
— Teresa of Avila
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
— Ronald Reagan
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
— St. John Chrysostom
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
— St. Thomas Aquinas