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Quotes About Nature

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.
~ John Muir
History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.
~ Oswald Spengler
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
~ Andre Gide
The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.
~ Otto Weininger
How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?
~ Willi Unsoeld
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
~ F. H. Bradley
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
~ Pope Pius XI
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
~ George Santayana
Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.
~ Livy
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
~ Edgar Alwin Payne
Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.
~ Scott Jurek
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.
~ Dion Fortune
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
~ Robert Breault
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
~ Athenaeus
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
~ John Muir
The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
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~ Bob Proctor
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.
~ Mitch Horowitz
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.
~ Gerald May
Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.
~ August Sander