Quotes About Nature

A man of wisdom delights in water.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.