Quotes About Nature

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.