Quotes about Nature, page 3

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one...

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Quote by Joseph Addison about nature

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about nature

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about nature

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Quote by Aeschylus about nature

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Quote by Aristotel about nature

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Quote by Aristotel about nature

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Quote by Aristotel about nature

Nature does nothing in vain.

Quote by Aristotel about nature

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Quote by Aristotel about nature

The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.

Quote by Aristotel about nature

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Quote by George W. Bush about nature

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nature

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about nature

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Quote by Iulius Cezar about nature