Nature Sympathy Quotes

#1. But better far it is to speak
One simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men.

James Russell Lowell

#2. It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Alphonsus Liguori

#4. Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Isaac Barrow

#5. I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in turn, seems the loveliest.

Mark Twain

#6. She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

Mary Webb

#7. Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Thomas Mann

#8. The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Julian Barnes

#9. It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

Gertrude Atherton

#10. Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

#11. In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. LIFE'S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

Pema Chodron

#13. Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#14. To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Confucius

#15. To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Mark Twain

#16. The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#17. Literature's view of human nature encouraged understanding, sympathy, and identification with people not like oneself, but the world was pushing everyone in the opposite direction, toward narrowness,

Salman Rushdie

#18. Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Francis Herbert Hedge

#19. His face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Philip Pullman

#20. It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Benjamin Franklin

#21. Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth,
Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceive
Of sunshine and wide air and winged things,
By sympathy of nature, so do I

James Russell Lowell

#22. Instances can often arise in which the person in question would need the love and sympathy of others, and he would have no hope of getting the help he desires, being robbed of it by this law of nature

Anonymous

#23. Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

Alexander Hamilton

#24. I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere;

Charlotte Bronte

#25. That was the way with folk; full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them.

Sam J. Charlton

#26. Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Napoleon Hill

#27. If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Havelock Ellis

#28. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Daniel Wallace

#29. Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,
the human soul!

James Russell Lowell

#30. I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

George Edward Woodberry

#31. It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F.H. Bradley

#32. The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man ...

Luther Burbank

#33. The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. No, no, no, it cannot be," she cried; "she cannot feel. Her kindness is not sympathy; her good-nature is not tenderness. All that she wants is gossip; and she only likes me now because I supply it.

Jane Austen

#35. He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

Albert Einstein

#36. The lack of social support and sympathy is an additional trial: disabled, but with the nature of her disability not clear - she is not, after all, manifestly blind or paralysed, manifestly anything - she tends to be treated as a phoney or a fool.

Oliver Sacks

#37. You cannot have a deep sympathy with both man & nature. Those qualities which bring you near to the one estrange you from the other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson