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Quotes About Nature

Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?
~ Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.
~ Joseph Addison
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
~ Victor Hugo
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
~ Rene Dubos
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
~ Carl Jung
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
~ Mary Oliver
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~ Aldo Leopold
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
~ Rudolf Steiner
You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.
~ Nelly Furtado
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
~ Terence McKenna
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.
~ Pope John Paul II
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
~ Mary Oliver
The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
~ Chanakya
The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
~ John Cowper Powys
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.
~ John F. Kennedy
Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
~ David Sobel
Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon