Nature Quotes

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.