Quotes About Nature

There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

May books and nature be their early joy!

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.