Nature Quotes

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

Experience nature. Then you know why it's worth protecting.

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience, that the information accumulated was available forever.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

There are no vacant lots in nature.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Nature, like Maimonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.