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Quotes About Nature

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.
~ Matthew McConaughey
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
~ William Shenstone
The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
~ Werner Herzog
Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
~ Joan Jett
The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
~ Marguerite Young
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
~ Henri Poincare
It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.
~ Sean MacBride
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
~ Saint Ambrose
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
~ Xavier Rudd
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
~ Jack LaLanne
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.
~ John D. Barrow
I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.
~ Louie Schwartzberg
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
~ Carl Sagan
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
~ Alan Watts
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.
~ David Mixner
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
~ Al Goldstein
I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.
~ Taeyang
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.
~ Rolf-Dieter Heuer
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
~ E. Stanley Jones
In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.
~ Simon Schama