Quotes About Nature

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Nature's first green is gold.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?