Man is an animal whose nature it is to live in a polis.
Aristotle
Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks amend.
Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
Come now, ye men, in nature darkling, like to the race of leaves, of little might, figures of clay, shadowy feeble tribes, wingless creatures of a day, miserable mortals, dream-like men.
Aristophanes
If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Scientists tell us that the world of nature is so small and interdependent that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest can generate a violent storm on the other side of the earth. This principle is known as the "Butterfly Effect." Today, we realize, perhaps more than ever, that the world of human activity also has its own "Butterfly Effect" for better or for worse.
Kofi Atta Annan
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Durante degli Alighieri
There is not a beast of the field but may trust his nature and follow it; certain that it will lead him to the best of which he is capable. But as for us, our only invincible enemy is our nature.
William Arthur
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body ? This first we ought to determine.
Sri Aurobindo
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
St. Augustine of Hippo
We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.
Bryant McGill
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis Bacon
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Philip James Bailey
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
Francis Bacon