Quotes About Nature

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.