Quotes about Nature
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
- Samuel Johnson
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
- Oscar Wilde
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
- Joseph Addison
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
- Laurence Sterne
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
- William Wordsworth
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
- Charles Dickens
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
- Laurence Sterne
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
- St. Augustine
Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.
- Norman Vincent Peale