Quotes About Nature

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

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

And thus he mused: "From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede;And here a city, by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut'—so Nature gives command—'Your window through on Europe: standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!' "

It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Trees are your best antiques.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

Along with believing that traditional families were bad for children, they also believed that a child's biological inheritance was unimportant and that environment was everything.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

This view of a living nature where man is nothing is both odd and sad. Here, in a fertile land, in an eternal greenness, you search in vain for traces of man; you feel you are carried into a different world from the one you were born into.

In considering the study of physical phenomena, not merely in its bearings on the material wants of life, but in its general influence on the intellectual advancement of mankind, we find its noblest and most important result to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent upon each other; and it is the perception of these relations that exalts our views and ennobles our enjoyments.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Nature has the appearance of greatness to man in proportion as she is veiled in mystery; and the ignorant are prone to put faith in everything that borders on the marvellous.

I regret not being a grove, which arms itself with leaves. I find it hard to be with minutes, they have completely confused me. It really upsets me terribly that I can be seen in reality.

Our camp-kettle, filled from the brook, hummed doubtfully for a while, then busily bubbled under the sidelong glare of the flames—cups clinked and rattled—the fragrant steam ascended; and soon this little circlet in the wilderness grew warm and genial as my lady's drawing-room.

But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody has fathomed the depths of... and paths threaeded with flowers planted by the mind." Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnes

You could never be cruel. It's simply not in your nature." She smiled wryly at his arrogant assurance. "You sound very certain for a vampire who has only known me a few months." He arched a raven brow. "It's because I'm a vampire that I know. I can read your soul, Abby, and it is as pure and beautiful as any I have ever seen.

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.

Nature teaches you to have patience and faith. Life's just a cycle, you know. Things might seem dead, but they always come back to life . . .