Quotes for Nature

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Napoleon Hill

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

Camille Paglia

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Sigmund Freud

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Hunter S. Thompson

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Alan Watts

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Thomas Carlyle

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul