Quotes About Nature

Nature abhors annihilation.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Old men are garrulous by nature.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

God, if she considered it, seemed awfully cruel and violent, blowing people's houses down, washing out the coastline. Such a God, Allison was sure, would have to be a man, and not a particularly nice one.

Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

As God contains all good things, He must also contain a sense of playfulness -- a gift he has shared with Creatures other than ourselves, as witness the tricks Crows play, and the sportiveness of Squirrels, and the frolicking of Kittens.

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes it and is drawn to the face of God.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands

Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

God and Nature together shaped him to lead in the van, In the stress of her wildest weather when the Nation needed a Man.

if God spoke creation into existence, should we be surprised when creation speaks back to us about God?

Ye sleeping buds, break Open your green cerements, and wake To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake.