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Quotes About Nature

The power of the world always works in circles.
~ Black Elk
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
~ Anzia Yezierska
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
~ Paracelsus
Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?
~ Peter Frampton
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
~ Pope John Paul II
Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
~ Bob Gibson
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
~ Nicholas Trist
We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.
~ Jane Goodall
Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.
~ Robert Greene
I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~ Robert South
Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
~ Rumer Godden
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
~ Albert Camus
We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.
~ Brian Froud
The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
~ Werner Herzog
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
~ Charles Dickens
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
~ George Henry Lewes
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains
~ Dogen
The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.
~ Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
The strong were always eating the weak.
~ James Rollins, Deep Fathom
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
~ Ricky Schroder