All Quotes

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
‐‐ Nicolas Chamfort

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
‐‐ A. E. Housman

Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature.
‐‐ Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
‐‐ James Payn

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
‐‐ Pawan Kalyan

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
‐‐ Susanna Moodie

Nature refuses to rest.
‐‐ John Updike

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
‐‐ Thornton Wilder

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
‐‐ Louie Schwartzberg

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
‐‐ Paul Muni

Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
‐‐ Matthew Stewart

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
‐‐ John Donne

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
‐‐ James Cameron

Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
‐‐ Mary Beth Whitehead

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
‐‐ Mary Webb

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.
‐‐ Frans Lanting

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
‐‐ Taslima Nasrin

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hardwick

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
‐‐ Tertullian

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
‐‐ John Burroughs

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
‐‐ Johannes Kepler

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
‐‐ Luigi Pirandello

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
‐‐ Daniel Boone

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
‐‐ Stewart Udall

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
‐‐ Janine Benyus

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl

Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
‐‐ Emily Oster

Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
‐‐ Ander Crenshaw

Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau