Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney

You can't just let nature run wild.
Walt Disney

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson