Quotes
Quotes about Nature
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Nature means Necessity.
Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Rich with the spoils of nature.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures; I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward, Nature's good And God's.
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap--that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.
[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]
All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
