Aristotle Quotes

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.