Quotes About Nature

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Man must go back to nature for information.

George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.