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Quotes About Nature

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
~ William Shakespeare
It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
~ Ian McHarg
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
~ Oscar Wilde
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
~ Nigel Calder
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
~ James F. Cooper
When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!
~ Jack Nicholson
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
~ Plato
Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.
~ Ricardo Semler
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
~ Baron d'Holbach
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
~ Baron d'Holbach
All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
~ Rachel Carson
There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
~ R. C. Sproul
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
~ Oscar Wilde
Hidden nature is secret God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.
~ Walter A. Shewhart
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
~ Terence McKenna
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
~ Madonna Ciccone