Quotes About Nature

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Man's usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

It's the impeded stream that sings

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.