Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her chil... -Thornton Wilder

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder , Novelist
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Thornton Wilder Quotes to Explore

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous....
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for....
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home....
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home....
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday....
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much....
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose....
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness....
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder....
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests....

Nature Quotes to Explore

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....