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Quotes About Nature

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
~ Mitch Albom
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
~ Muhammad Ali
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
~ Douglas Lenat
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
~ Philip Yancey
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
~ Mark Twain
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
~ Robert Harris
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
~ Edward Abbey
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.
~ Myles Munroe
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.
~ Eva Figes
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.
~ Michael Beckwith
Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.
~ Voltaire
Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.
~ Summer Rayne Oakes
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.
~ Francoise Sagan
I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.
~ Frank Bolles
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.
~ Frans Lanting
There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
~ Franz Kafka
The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
~ Edward Abbey