Quotes About Nature

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Nature is under control but not disturbed.

a culture is no better than its woods

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.