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Quotes About Nature

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
~ William Cowper
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
~ Henry Beston
Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself
~ Willi Unsoeld
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
~ Edward Young
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.
~ Lydia M. Child
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.
~ Richard Wilbur
Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."
~ Anne Waldman
To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
~ J. E. H. MacDonald
In nature there are few sharp lines
~ A. R. Ammons
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.
~ Christiane Northrup
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.
~ Lawrence Halprin
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
~ Washington Irving
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
~ Joseph Addison
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable
~ Robert Delaunay
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
~ Richard Louv
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
~ Seneca the Younger
Nature formed me fierce.
~ Lady Caroline Lamb
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.
~ Frederick Lenz
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
~ Charlie Chaplin
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
~ Bob Brown
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
~ Antoine Rivarol