Quotes About Nature

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.

The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.

I'm not sorry, it's human nature.

There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.