Famous Quotes

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."

Henri Frederic Amiel 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 Henri Frederic Amiel

• "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

• "Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."

• "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

• "Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion."

• "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."