Nature Quotes

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.

Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

Nature needs no help, just no interference.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.