Quotes About Nature

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.