Nature Quotes

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.