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Quotes About Nature

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
~ Rumi
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
~ Bill Watterson
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
~ Xun Kuang
Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.
~ Carl Jung
As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.
~ Hermann Hesse
Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.
~ Frederick Lenz
All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.
~ Joseph Kosuth
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
~ Satish Kumar
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.
~ Galileo Galilei
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.
~ John Muir
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.
~ Paul Caponigro
Nature hates calculators.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
~ Emily Bronte
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
~ Matthew Henry
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
~ Ansel Adams
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
~ Thomas Huxley
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.
~ John Muir
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
~ Douglas Kennedy
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.
~ Aldous Huxley
The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.
~ Paul Caponigro