Quotes About Nature

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

Wordsworth's called The Tables Turned: Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

You don't have to believe in God to do the programme. You just have to accept that there's a higher power – it could be the lamp in the corner of the room, for all they care. Some people use nature, the ocean, their d**k – whatever comes to mind.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.

Elizabeth was trying not to laugh. How did you get the sons of reivers to read books? Well, you told them they couldn't have them and let nature take its course.

I don't eat animals." "What's the problem with eating animals? Animals don't have problems eating other animals. You ever have a cat? Those suckers are the sweetest, most adorable little bloodthirsty killers in the world.

The problem is not that humans are by nature incapable of knowing how to love, but that the circumstances of their lives often prevent them from learning.

The sun was extinguishing itself on the watery horizon.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Una escena que sorprende en los documentales de la naturaleza es ver al depredador, pacífico después de comer, al lado y conviviendo en armonía con los que serán su futuro alimento.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.