Quotes About Nature

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.