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Quotes About Nature

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.
~ Grace Kelly
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
~ Charles Darwin
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
~ Ibn Arabi
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.
~ John Glenn
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
~ William Wordsworth
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
~ Hubert Reeves
Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
~ Rachel Carson
Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.
~ Yayoi Kusama
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
~ William Golding
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
~ Adi Shankara
In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.
~ Ellen G. White
The mountains are calling and I must go.
~ John Muir
The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.
~ Huey Newton
Nature needs no help, just no interference.
~ B. J. Palmer
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.
~ Adolf Hitler
We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.
~ Tadao Ando