“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”– Alphonse de Lamartine Related Quotes “We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson “The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”– William Hazlitt “There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.”– Marquis de Sade