Quotes about Nature
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.
- Pablo Picasso
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.
- Marianne Williamson
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
- Theodore Roosevelt
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
- Bill Gates
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
- Tertullian
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
- Cicero
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
- Peter Kreeft
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
- Albert Einstein
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
- Mark Twain
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
- Albert Camus