Seneca the Younger Quotes

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

I do not want to give you artificial and systematic laws, invented by man; only to bring you back under the unique laws of nature and order, which command to the heart and do not tyrannize the free will.

Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.