Famous Quotes About nature

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.