Nature Quotes

Nature abhors a moron.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself – my disgust at her barbarity – clumsiness – darkness – bitter mockery of herself – is the most desolating.

Nature will force her way, and if you try to stifle her by drowning, she comes up, not the fairest part of her uppermost.

It is too late to go back to the order of nature or the truth in history.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing; and I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity.

If the natural course of things were perfectly right and satisfactory, to act at all would be a gratuitous meddling, which, as it could not make things better, must make them worse. Or if action at all could be justified, it would only be when in direct obedience to instincts, since these might perhaps be […]