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Quotes About Nature

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.
~ Phyllis McGinley
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
~ William Wordsworth
The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
~ Lillian B. Rubin
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
~ John Henry Newman
Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.
~ Nora Roberts
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature
~ Thaddeus Norris
It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.
~ Michael Franti
Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.
~ Lord Acton
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
~ Paul Cezanne
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
~ Midori Snyder
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
~ Timothy Keller
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
~ Alexander Pope
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.
~ Allan Bloom
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
~ Brett Dennen
I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
~ Studs Terkel
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.
~ Ruth Pitter
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
~ Terence McKenna
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
~ Edgar Degas
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
~ Edward Abbey
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.
~ Etgar Keret
Nature constantly imitates art.
~ Oscar Wilde