Nature Quotes

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

Let Nature be your teacher

The more one judges, the less one loves.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

There is no better designer than nature

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.