Nature Quotes

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

Nature is never finished.

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

Hidden nature is secret God.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.