Quotes About Nature

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.