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Quotes About Nature

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
~ Johannes Scotus Eriugena
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
~ Anne Frank
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.
~ Bodhidharma
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.
~ Emily Greene Balch
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
~ Tilda Swinton
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
~ James Cagney
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.
~ Georgy Zhukov
And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
~ Alice Herz-Sommer
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
~ Aldo Leopold
What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.
~ Giorgio Morandi
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
~ Linda Hogan
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
~ Jean-Francois Millet
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
~ Che Guevara
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
~ Robert Boyle
We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
~ Abraham Maslow
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
~ Thomas Cole
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
~ William Morris
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
~ John Muir
Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
~ Nicolas Cage
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
~ D.T. Suzuki