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Quotes About Nature

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.
~ Steven Weinberg
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
~ Stevie Smith
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
~ Stevie Smith
Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
~ Stewart Udall
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
~ Stone Gossard
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
~ Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.
~ Sue Grafton
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
~ Susan Cain
We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals
~ Swami Vivekananda
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom
~ Swami Vivekananda
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.
~ Swami Vivekananda
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
~ Swami Vivekananda
All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Change is the nature of all objective things.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Love is sunshine, music, nature, my puppies, my boyfriend, my parents, my siblings, my true friends. It's a connection that allows us to coexist on this planet.
~ Syesha Mercado
We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.
~ Sylvia Earle
We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.
~ Sylvia Earle
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
~ Sylvia Fraser
The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.
~ Tara Parker-Pope