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Quotes About Nature

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
~ Melanie Klein
Love is nature's psychotherapy.
~ Eric Berne
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
~ Alister E. McGrath
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
~ Rumi
A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
~ Cory Doctorow
A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
~ Zeno of Citium
All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
~ Helen Keller
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
~ Willem de Kooning
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.
~ Carlo Petrini
Nature is our chapel.
~ Bjork
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
~ Paracelsus
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
~ Caravaggio
States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
~ Kenneth Waltz
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
~ Lady Gaga
It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they're not easy, nature didn't give them to us - we have to learn them.
~ Paul Ekman
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~ William Ruckelshaus
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
~ Paul Gauguin
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
~ John Muir