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

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

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Sigmund Freud

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

Hal Borland

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

Satchel Paige

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

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

Edmund Burke

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

Michael Gerber

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

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

Thomas Carlyle