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Quotes About Nature

We will move to a low-carbon world because nature will force us, or because policy will guide us. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.
~ Christiana Figueres
In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free
~ Trevor Hall
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
~ Ai Weiwei
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
~ Confucius
Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
~ Neil Young
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
~ William Landay
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.
~ Marc Gafni
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
~ George Sand
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly
~ Harry Reasoner
To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
~ Thomas Cole
It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.
~ Dorothy Wordsworth
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
~ William Beebe
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
~ Edwin Way Teale
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.
~ Waris Dirie
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
~ Fernando Botero
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
~ Joseph McCabe
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
~ Paul Cezanne
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
~ Mooji
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
~ Danny Elfman
Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
~ Maude Barlow
Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us
~ Edward Bach