nature Quotes

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other,... ...

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are... ...