Nature Quotes

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Philip James Bailey



I love Nature.
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira



Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Jacob Bronowski



I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows only hard and with luminous edges and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.
Edwin Abbott



for there is nothing in nature without a purpose
Louis Agassiz



Cheerfulness and good nature, purge hatred and rancour.
Musa al-Kadhim



To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Durante degli Alighieri



Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle



Their souls are like mirrors, not of nature, but of what is around.
Allan David Bloom



Art is the perfection of nature.
Sir Thomas Browne



Heroic love is the property of those superior natures who are called insane (insano) not because they do not know, but because they over-know (soprasanno).
Giordano Bruno



Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!
Robert Burns



Nature admits no lie.
Thomas Carlyle



That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



Love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos