Quotes About Nature

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

[A personÂ's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself