Nature Quotes

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Art is the child of Nature.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

The natural alone is permanent.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.