Quotes About Nature

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our "capacity to receive" a blessed and sanctified nature.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Habit is a second nature.

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?

For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.