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Quotes About Nature

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
~ Albrecht Durer
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
~ Gunter Grass
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.
~ Gustav Mahler
Let nature be in your yard.
~ Greg Peterson
Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.
~ Xunzi
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
~ James Russell Lowell
Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.
~ Harriet McBryde Johnson
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
~ Ivan Pavlov
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
~ James Payn
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face
~ John Drinkwater
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
~ Fred Hoyle
Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
~ Mercedes Ruehl
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
~ Carl Hubbell
Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.
~ H. W. L. Poonja
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
~ George Croly
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
All gardening is landscape painting.
~ Alexander Pope
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
~ Elias Hicks
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
~ Baruch Spinoza
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
~ Seneca the Younger
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.
~ Tenzin Palmo