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Quotes About Nature

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.
~ Penelope Cruz
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
~ Rachel Carson
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
~ Henry L. Stimson
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture
~ Camille Paglia
A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.
~ T. S. Eliot
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
~ Wes Jackson
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit.
~ Carl Jung
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
~ Tacitus
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
~ Alex O'Loughlin
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
~ Andreas Libavius
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.
~ Brice Marden
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
~ Northrop Frye
The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
~ Laozi
Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?
~ Loren Eiseley
Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.
~ Dharma Mittra
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Gossip is nature's telephone.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.
~ Rajneesh
At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
~ Dick Gregory
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
~ Roger Tory Peterson
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
~ Pablo Picasso