Quotes
Quotes about Nature
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
What is tolerance?âit is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's follyâthat is the first law of nature.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?
For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.
Man must go back to nature for information.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
