Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.
Sir Francis Bacon - Essays, "Of Nature, In Men,"
Sir Francis Bacon - Essays, "Of Nature, In Men,"
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Bacon's Essays, "Of Gardens," 1627
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Bacon's Essays, "Of Gardens," 1627
In nature, things move violently to their place, and then calmly in their place.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Bacon's Essays, "Of Great Places," p. 27, 1627
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Bacon's Essays, "Of Great Places," p. 27, 1627
Art is man added to Nature.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -Descriptio Globi Intellectus, 1612
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -Descriptio Globi Intellectus, 1612
Man, being servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he as observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -
