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Quotes About Nature

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.
~ Pope Pius XII
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
~ Florence Nightingale
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.
~ Marco Pantani
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
~ Edvard Munch
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
~ Edward Abbey
I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.
~ Devon Werkheiser
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
~ Galileo Galilei
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
~ Rumi
I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
~ Ansel Adams
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
~ Henri Matisse
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.
~ Emily Carr
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
~ Art Wolfe
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
~ Éliphas Lévi
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
~ Benito Mussolini
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
~ George Harrison
Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.
~ Ellen G. White
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
More men have become great through practice than by nature.
~ Democritus
Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
~ W. H. Auden
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
~ E. O. Wilson