Quotes About Nature

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Those who hate rain hate life.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

The mountain is a mirror, where climbers look to find themselves. They discover their frailty, take heart from their strengths, drink deep of the insights.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Nothing else can fill better colors in one's life like the magnificent nature does

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.