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Quotes About Nature

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
~ Saint Basil
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
~ William Wordsworth
Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
~ Scott Cunningham
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
~ Muhammad Ali
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
~ Adolf Hitler
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
~ Yoko Ono
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
~ Ruth Rendell
Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.
~ Laurence Sterne
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
~ Gerhard Richter
Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.
~ Norman Doidge
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
~ Paul Gauguin
I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
~ Alice Walker
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.
~ William Shakespeare
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
~ John Polkinghorne
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
~ Maria Montessori
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.
~ Richard Matheson
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
~ William Wordsworth
One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.
~ Alec Baldwin
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
~ Roland Barthes
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
~ Herbert Marcuse
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
~ Auguste Rodin
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.
~ John Herschel