Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Change Quotes, Nature Quotes

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Change Quotes , Nature Quotes

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Nature Quotes

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wall Quotes

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Nature Quotes , War Quotes

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Family Quotes , Nature Quotes

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wise Quotes , Nature Quotes

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Love Quotes , Nature Quotes

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Nature Quotes , Children Quotes

TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Nature Quotes , Insomnia Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Fall Quotes

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Nature Quotes , Weakness Quotes

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Nature Quotes , Pitchforks Quotes

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Winter Quotes

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Mind Quotes

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Nature Quotes , Animal Quotes

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Balance Quotes