Nature Quotes About Beauty & the Outdoors – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Edwin Louis Cole

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Henry David Thoreau

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Marcus Aurelius

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Pierre Corneille

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Mohandas Gandhi

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

W. Somerset Maugham

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Leo Tolstoy

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Hannah Arendt

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Herman Melville

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Jim Fowler

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore de Balzac

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.