Nature - Quotes

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Nature

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H.G. Wells

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. - E. H. Chapin

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. - Alexander Pope

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh. - Jennette Lee

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world – not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. - John Lubbock

Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. - Victor Scheffer

Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy. - Richard W. Langer 

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. - Lord Bryon

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. - Henry Brooks Adams

Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher. - William Wordsworth  

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants. - Alan Lightman

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana

Everything we eat and use comes from this Earth, and so does the water that we drink or wash in or use for many other purposes. All these things that Nature provides enable us to survive and be happy and peaceful. Nature gives and gives, all the time. - Unknown

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature. - Chuang Tzu

How Nature delights and amuses us by varying even the character of insects: the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of the drone, the volatility of the butterfly, the slyness of the bug. - Sydney Smith

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! - Emily Dickinson

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C. Clarke

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. - Leonardo Davinci

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us a right. - Henry David Thoreau

If not ignored, nature will cultivate in the gardener a sense of well-being and peace. The gardener may find deeper meaning in life by paying attention to the parables of the garden. Nature teaches quiet lessons to the gardener who chooses to live within the paradigm of the garden. - Norman H. Hansen

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent Van Gogh

In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. - Aristotle

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Unknown

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. - John Milton

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. - Anatole France

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. - Oscar Wilde

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld

Lay aside all conceit. Learn to read the book of nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which has once in a while broad ended out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search. - Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. - Michel De Montaigne

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jimmy Carter

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. - Eckhart Tolle

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. - Standing Bear

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate. - Kobo Abe

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. - Radhanath Swami

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows. - E. H. Chapin

Nature ... is uniform. There is no sign of accident or caprice, or the arbitrary, fitful interference of a superior power, but the things of nature proceed onward from age to age with a solemn, majestic movement – an august procession that strikes the contemplative beholder with awe, and expands and lifts his soul with indescribable emotions of sublimity and grandeur. - Horace Mann

Nature abhors a vacuum. - Baruch Spinoza

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. - Napoleon Hill

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. - Charles Dickens

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. - Goethe

Nature has a wonderful power of putting things right, if allowed free play. - James Platt

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. - Lorraine Anderson

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries. - Unknown

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. - Eric Hoffer

Nature has no remorse. - Edward Counsel

Nature has painted for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. - Unknown

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies. - George Eliot

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. - Quintilian

Nature is a killer.. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. - Jeff Melvoin

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. - Francis Bacon

Nature is a library of divine thoughts to the spiritualized mind. - Reuben Thomas

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. - Robert Frost

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. - Blaise Pascal

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite. - Joseph Addison

Nature is nobody's ally. - Herman Melville

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

Nature is not human hearted. - Lao Tzu

Nature is not mute, it is Man that is deaf. - Terence McKenna

Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. - Wendell Berry

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. - Sir Francis Bacon

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there’s no annihilation – the essence remains. - Thomas Binney

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall. - Alan Lightman

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. - Annie Leibovitz

Nature is the armoury of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Mark Twain

Nature looks with an equal smile on all. - Edward Counsel

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage. - Johann Von Goethe

Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust. - E. H. Chapin

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. - Vandana Shiva

Nature talks in symbols; he who lacks imagination cannot understand her. - Abraham Miller

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. - John Burroughs

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. - Luigi Pirandello

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. - Richard Tapestry

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. - Anatole France

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. - Michel Foucault

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Henry Adams

Renew your inner energy and refresh your soul by simply taking a few moments each day to reflect upon the beauty and perfection of Nature’s creation. - Unknown

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

Search out the wisdom of Nature, there is depth in all her doings. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake. - Rachel Carson

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D. H. Lawrence

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature, – were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. - Henry Wadsworth Longefellow

The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws. - John Joseph Lynch

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

The student of nature is like one who goes with a candle into some immense cavern. Presently a little circle becomes clear, the shadows vanish before him, and undefined forms grow distinct. He thinks he is near the end, when, lo! what seemed a solid boundary of rock dissolves and floats away into a depth of darkness, the path opens into an immense void, new shapes of mystery start out, and he learns this much that he did not know before, that instead of being near the end he is only upon the threshold. - E. H. Chapin

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge. - Oliver Goldsmith

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works. - Albert Einstein

There is constant life in [Nature], motion and development; and yet she remains where she was. She is eternally changing, nor for a moment does she stand still. Of rest she knows nothing, and to all stagnation she has affixed her curse. She is steadfast; her step is measured, her exceptions rare, her laws immutable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer. - Calvin Coolidge

There is something of the marvellous in all things of nature. - Aristotle

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. - Rachel Carson

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. - Sir Isaac Newton

Use Nature well and she will recompense thee well. - Edward Counsel

We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We cannot command nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

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

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. - Unknown

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining. - Hildegard Von Bingen

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. - William Rotsler

You don’t have to be a scientist to learn from Nature’s marvellous creation; you only need to stop long enough to observe and let Nature reveal it’s wonders to you. - Unknown

You only need to stop long enough to observe and let Nature reveal it’s wonders to you. - Unknown

Your deepest roots are in nature.  No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. - Charles Cook

Necessity - Quotes

Necessity dispenseth with decorum. - Thomas Carlyle

Necessity does the work of courage. - George Eliot

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honour and pride. - William Faulkner

Necessity inspires the fatal thought. - Vittorio Alfeieri

Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature. - Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. - Mark Twain

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt

Necessity knows no law. - Unknown

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. - Daniel Defoe

Necessity makes even the timid brave. - Sallust

Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin

Necessity often has a brow of despair. - Edward Counsel

Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools. - Wellins Calcott

Necessity, the mother of invention. - George Farquhar

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. - Euripides

Our necessities never equal our wants. - Benjamin Franklin

Negativity - Quotes

All negativity is an illusion created by the limited mind to protect and defend itself. - Ambika Wauters

It is easier to avoid the effects of others' negativity when we question if an action or attitude is appropriately directed at us. If it isn't, we can choose to sidestep it and let it pass. - Sue Patton Theole

Negativity can only feed on negativity. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Negativity sucks away energy. If part of the negativity stems from your attitude or perspective, commit yourself at the beginning of each day and each activity to find something positive in yourself and in others around you. If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation. - Terry Orlick

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words. - John C. Maxwell

People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings. - Hendrie Weisinger

Sensitive souls draw in the negativity of others because they are so open. - John Gray

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous. - David Icke

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of? - Julia Cameron

News / Newspapers - Quotes

A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. - Vladimir Lenin

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. - Malcom X

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects. - Henry Ward Beecher

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. - G. K. Chestserton

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. - Charles Lamb

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people. - Henry Ward Beecher

Newspapers widen the sphere of our sympathies. They make their readers enter into the joys and sorrows of thousands of whom they would else know nothing, and for whom they would otherwise care nothing. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. - Sophocles

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects. - Mahatma Gandhi

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. - Spiro Agnew

Today’s journalism is obsessed with the kinds of things that tend to preoccupy thirteen-year-old boys: sports, sex, crime, and narcissism. - Steven Stark

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht

We expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. - Abraham Lincoln

Night - Quotes

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. - H. P. Lovecraft

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare

Night hath a thousand eyes. - John Lyly

Night is the mother of counsels. - George Herbert

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. - Catherine O’Hara

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Sorrow may endure for a night, but if you hold on, joy will follow in the morning. - Unknown

When the night is the darkest, that is when one lone candle makes the biggest difference. - Unknown

Nonsense - Quotes

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. - Roald Dahl

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. - Rex Stout

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. - Horace Walpole

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. - Robert Frost

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense. - Philip Dick

Nurses - Quotes

As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

Caring is the essence of nursing. - Leninger

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. - Dag Hammarskjold

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. - Florence Nightingale

Nurses are the heart of healthcare. - Donna Wilk Cardillo

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. - Val Saintsbury

Nurses have come a long way in a few short decades. In the past our attention focused on physical, mental and emotional healing. Now we talk of healing your life, healing the environment, and healing the planet. - Lynn Keegan

Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are "just doing our jobs." - Christine Belle

The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses. - Carolyn Jarvis

The hospital will never be healthy for patients if it's not a healthy environment for nurses, where their voices are heard and where they can care for their patients and use the full extent of their knowledge, abilities, and skills. After all, hospitals today have become one big intensive care unit: all patients need intensive caring. - Tilda Shalof

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. - William Osler

When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over the years, I know most of them don't remember me nor I them. But I do know that I gave a little piece of myself to each of them and they to me and those threads make up the beautiful tapestry in my mind that is my career in nursing. - Donna Wilk Cardillo