Quotes About Nature

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon. It never makes an appearance itself, but is a visible reflection in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind. It is as various as nature herself.

Il malumore e la pigrizia sono in tutto simili, perché il malumore è una specie di pigrizia. A questa siamo portati per natura, e tuttavia se troviamo la forza per reagire ecco che il lavoro diviene agevole e l'attività un vero piacere.

La soledad en este paraíso terrenal es un bálsamo genial para mi mente,

Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?

Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

I sing as the bird singsThat lives in the boughs.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.

Dear friend, all theory is gray,And green the golden tree of life.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff" (loose translation: nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man & a rogue)

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.