Quotes About Nature

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.