Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss’d thro’ the Void, by some rude Shock we’re broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke.
Nature Quotes
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question. Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, ‘Children, eat your victuals, and say no more of it.’
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal kingdom under the conditions of this earth is very well – but soon as you know of your slavery, the pain, the anger, the strife, the tragedy begins.
You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that if man proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and flattered, will say yes.
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions.
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages – leaf after leaf, never returning one.
I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau – If birds confabulate or no.
