Famous Quotes

"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

Baruch Spinoza on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Baruch Spinoza

• "He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."

• "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."

• "I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

• "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

• "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."