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Quotes About Nature

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.
~ W. H. Auden
I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.
~ W. S. Gilbert
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
~ Wallace Stevens
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
~ Wallace Stevens
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
~ Walt Whitman
What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
~ Walter Bagehot
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
~ Walter J. Phillips
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.
~ Walter Lippmann
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
~ Walter Savage Landor
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Some touch of Nature's genial glow.
~ Walter Scott
Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same
~ Wayne Dyer
Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.
~ Wayne Dyer
Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.
~ Wayne Dyer
I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.
~ Wayne Dyer
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
~ Wendell Berry
Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
~ Wendell Berry
It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
~ Werner Herzog
Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
~ William Cowper
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
~ William Cowper
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
~ William Graham Sumner
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
~ William Hazlitt