I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Carl von ClausewitzI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David ThoreauIn the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao TzuRetaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert CamusIn wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David ThoreauModern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola TeslaTrees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John MuirNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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.
AristotleExcept during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘
Elizabeth KennyMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous HuxleyCustom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise PascalEverybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John MuirThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo GalileiCall it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerThen not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
PlatoGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John MuirTruths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David ThoreauWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinGenerally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David ThoreauMany readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.
Alice WalkerOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin LutherAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.
John MuirOur nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise PascalPhilosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.
John MuirYou can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
LeBron JamesThe subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis BaconPatience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon HillThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerI’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady GagaOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareWe cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis BaconO wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
ChanakyaNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillSee that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. FeynmanIt is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
Alice WalkerThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CummingsThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John MuirWhat nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.
John MuirNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis BaconOh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
Charles SpurgeonBehold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeI mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.
Robert KiyosakiA little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert HubbardNature has always had more force than education.
VoltaireKeep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John MuirWhat is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo Emerson