Quotes About Nature

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

The sound of water says what I think.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe.