Quotes About Nature

Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Rich with the spoils of nature.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

Nature has always had more force than education.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature