“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Charles Baudelaire
Category: nature
To understand the nature of the people
“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Niccolo Machiavelli
Poetry is the universal language which the
“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
Category: nature
Tags: nature, William Hazlitt
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
— Hosea Ballou
Author: Hosea Ballou
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Hosea Ballou
If we knew exactly the laws of
“If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.”
— Henri Poincare
Author: Henri Poincare
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Henri Poincare
Human judges can show mercy. But against
“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Arthur C. Clarke
The clearest way into the Universe is
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
— John Muir
Author: John Muir
Category: nature
Tags: nature, John Muir
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual
“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”
— Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Wallace Stevens
The satirist who writes nothing but satire
“The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little – or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”
— Anthony Trollope
Author: Anthony Trollope
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Anthony Trollope
You can tell the nature of the
“You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.”
— Edwin Louis Cole
Author: Edwin Louis Cole
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Edwin Louis Cole
No tendency is quite so strong in
“No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
— William Howard Taft
Author: William Howard Taft
Category: nature
Tags: nature, William Howard Taft