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Quotes About Nature

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
~ Gaylord Nelson
even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.
~ Hadewijch
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
~ Charles Colson
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
~ Aldous Huxley
True love can alter human lives and change human nature.
~ Thomas S. Monson
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
~ Satish Kumar
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
~ Helen Caldicott
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World
~ Henry David Thoreau
The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.
~ Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
~ Hans Morgenthau
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.
~ Roy H. Williams
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
~ Andrew Marvell
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
~ Francis Bacon
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
~ Denis Diderot
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
~ Laurence Sterne
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
~ Anne Frank
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
~ Ramana Maharshi
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
~ Anne Frank
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
~ Barry White