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Quotes About Nature

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
~ William Graham Sumner
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
~ Ai Weiwei
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
~ Loren Eiseley
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
~ Paul Valery
Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
~ Mark Nepo
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
~ Arundhati Roy
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
~ Paul Cezanne
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
~ Walter Bagehot
The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful
~ Plato
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
~ William Blake
Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.
~ Ruta Sepetys
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.
~ Charles Edward Merriam
Law is born from despair of human nature.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
~ Alan Bleasdale
Nature abhors a vacuum.
~ Francois Rabelais
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
~ Vaclav Havel
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
~ Aldo Leopold
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
~ James Franco
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
~ Camille Paglia