“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”– Jane Austen Related Quotes “Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.”– Gustave Flaubert “Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”– William Ralph Inge “Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.”– Rudyard Kipling