Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. — Samuel Richardson
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. — Sharon Welch
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. — Joseph Addison
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent — Henry David Thoreau
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. — Robert G. Ingersoll
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — Thomas Henry Huxley
I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature. — Neil Young
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will — Mark Twain
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf — Henry David Thoreau
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — Blaise Pascal
My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places — Henry David Thoreau
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.. — George Santayana
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. — May Sarton
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough — Linda Hogan
When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature — Ernest Becker
Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life — John Muir
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there. — Marcus Aurelius
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. — Neil Armstrong
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal