George Santayana Quotes About Nature
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
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Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.
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The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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George Santayana
- Born: December 16, 1863
- Died: September 26, 1952
- Occupation: Philosopher
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