Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

People occasionally forgive, but nature never does..

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature, they call you a mother; they ought to call you a cruel stepmother.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

… nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

When you're right, you're right, when you're wrong, you're wrong and that's all there is to it.

Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

Nature itself cannot err

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

The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes.......right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.

Nature...cannot be fooled!

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.