Quotes About Nature

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Water is the driving force in nature.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers