Nature Quotes

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.