Quotes About Nature

So far, I've spoken of four major benefits of studying natural science: it sends us outdoors, which aids our health; its discoveries drive invention and manufacturing; it's a way of learning truths about the world; and it points the way to wisdom.

This sense of harmony between the outside and inside worlds doesn't fade as scientific knowledge increases. Instead, with each new law that science reveals, the analogies between nature and ourselves grow deeper. Every discovery about the universe brings us a greater understanding of ourselves.

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages, and the ages explained by the hours.

you gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or

Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places.

What is common to them all,—that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.

nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

When nature awakens our wonder and curiosity, we become scholars. This is the beginning of education. Through our senses, nature impresses herself on our minds. Her splendors shine forth everywhere we turn—from the largest masses to the tiniest particles. Then our mind begins to classify all that we survey, turning nature into organized knowledge.

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space

The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost he cannot restore, And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we call Fate.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophically considered, the universe consists of Nature and the Soul.

When we speak of nature on this way, we have a awesome however maximum poetical experience within the thoughts. We suggest the integrity of influence made by means of manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the timber-cutter, from the tree of the poet.

fundamental law of criticism. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. A new interest surprises us, whilst, under the

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. Nature

same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the secret of our own nature. They are test objects.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.