Nature Quotes

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

Margaret Cavendish

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

Margaret Chan

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Martin Chemnitz

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Mason Cooley

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

President George W. Bush's aggressive war on Islamic terrorism produced a 100 percent perfect track record of keeping the United States safe from another attack. The result has been increased security for the American people, who, in turn, have becom...

Monica Crowley

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Marguerite Duras

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Maureen Dowd

A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

Melissa Etheridge

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

Mireille Enos

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

Marilyn Ferguson

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka