Quotes About Nature

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.