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Quotes About Nature

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.
~ Lewis Thomas
Man is embedded in nature.
~ Lewis Thomas
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.
~ Lewis Wolpert
But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.
~ Libba Bray
By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
~ Lin Yutang
"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.
~ W. C. Sellar
I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
~ William Shakespeare
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.
~ Lewis Mumford
I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
~ Livy
Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.
~ Lois Crisler
No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.
~ Lokendra Singh
Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
~ Lord Byron
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
~ Lord Byron
In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.
~ Lord Chesterfield
All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
~ William Butler Yeats
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
~ Louis Agassiz
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!
~ Louis Farrakhan
Set your face for religion being upright, the nature made by Allah in which He has created the human being.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.
~ Louis Pasteur
Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
~ Lucretius
... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
~ Lucretius