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Quotes About Nature

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
~ James Balog
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.
~ Frederick Lenz
How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.
~ John Muir
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.
~ Claudio Silvestrin
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
For greed, all nature is too little.
~ Seneca the Younger
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
~ Donald Miller
I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.
~ Neil Young
Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.
~ Shashi Deshpande
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
~ Ramakrishna
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
~ Kathleen Raine
Adultery is the injury of nature.
~ Plato
The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
~ Van Morrison
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The works of nature must all be accounted good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
~ David Hume
Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.
~ Joseph Fourier
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
~ Bill Watterson
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
~ James Russell Lowell
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
~ William Law