What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. To be part of the animal kingdom under the conditions of this earth is very well – but soon as you know of your slavery, the pain, the anger, the strife, the tragedy begins.
Nature Quotes
You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that if man proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and flattered, will say yes.
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions.
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages – leaf after leaf, never returning one.
Nature is cruel, man is sick of blood; Nature is stubborn, man would fain adore; Nature is fickle, man hath no need of rest; Nature forgives no debt, and fears no grave.
Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
Nature alone is antique and the oldest art a mushroom.
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
