Nature

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. – Max Planck

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. – Fran Lebowitz

Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave it is not in his nature. – Laurence Sterne

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. – Stephen Hawking

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. – Fran Lebowitz

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. – Anatole France

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

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. – Franz Kafka

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. – Max Beerbohm

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more. – Alexander Pope

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. – Ansel Adams

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. – Henry Miller

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. – Miriam Makeba

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. – Galileo Galilei