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Quotes About Nature

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
~ Paul Gauguin
The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.
~ Francis Collins
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.
~ Galileo Galilei
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally
~ Maurice Strong
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
~ Akhenaton
Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.
~ William Wilberforce
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.
~ Dean Potter
We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.
~ George Lincoln Rockwell
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
~ Chrysippus
The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.
~ Doreen Valiente
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
~ Mencius
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
~ Arthur Erickson
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
~ Herman Melville
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.
~ Adriaan Kortlandt
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
~ John Stuart Blackie
More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.
~ Samuel von Pufendorf
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
~ Robert Burns
Nature is the mirror of divinity.
~ Ellen G. White
Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.
~ Richard Louv
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
~ Syd Barrett