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Quotes About Nature

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
~ Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
~ Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
~ Victor Hugo
The clouds, — the only birds that never sleep.
~ Victor Hugo
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
~ Victor Hugo
Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?
~ Victor Hugo
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
~ Victor Hugo
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
~ Unknown
The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.
~ Victor J. Stenger
The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.
~ Victor J. Stenger
Kiril Roublev glissa, à longues enjambées sur ses skis, jusqu'à a la station suivante, le long de bois silencieux où l'obscurité semblait naître à ras de terre ainsi qu'une brume insaisissable. Un mince croissant de lune bleu terriblement effilé, épousant la forme d'une gorge idéale, monta dans la nuit. Roublev pensa: Vilaine lune. La peur vient tout à fait comme la nuit.
~ Victor Serge
L'univers et l'homme sont faits d'étoiles
~ Victor Serge
The culture's reverence for nature accentuates Kyoto's innate beauty. Designs on fabric, pottery, lacquer, and folding screens depict swirling water, budding branches, and birds in flight. Delicate woodcuts and scrolls celebrate the moonlight, rain, and snow. Elegant restaurant dishes arrive with edible garnishes of seasonal flora.
~ Unknown
When a mother dies, a house becomes a forest. My children, children, know that I am in the trees. True love means you won't find me.
~ Victoria Chang
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.
~ William Shakespeare
The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
~ Claude Monet
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~ Anne Frank
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
~ John Frusciante
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
May you always walk in Beauty.
~ Black Elk
Beauty is not caused. It is.
~ Emily Dickinson