Quotes about Nature
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
- St. John Chrysostom
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
- St. John Chrysostom
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.
- Priscilla Shirer
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