Quotes About Nature

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.