Nature Quotes

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.