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Quotes About Nature

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can
~ Joni Mitchell
STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature
~ Dale Carnegie
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.
~ Eric Hoffer
There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.
~ Charles Dickens
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
~ Soseki Natsume
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
~ Bodhidharma
When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
~ Margaret Mead
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
~ Joseph Butler
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
~ Pete Townshend, Horse's Neck
I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.
~ Raymond Carver
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
~ Epicurus
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
~ Robert Lanza
When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
~ Dylan Thomas
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
~ Maya Angelou
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
~ Lucretius
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.
~ Charles A. Murray
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
~ Virginia Woolf
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
~ Patricia Highsmith
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
~ Maggie Q
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
~ August Macke