Nature Quotes

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”

— Aristotle

“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.”

— Sophocles

“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

— Maria Mitchell

“A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.”

— Maynard James Keenan

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”

— John Keats

“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 P. Feynman

“No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.”

— Joni Mitchell

“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.”

— Ayelet Waldman

“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”

— Doug Larson

“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”

— Mason Cooley

“French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.”

— Kristin Scott Thomas