We have collected the best Nature Quotes by famous authors including William Cullen Bryant, Lao Tzu, Edwin Way Teale, Michael Pollan, Joakim Noah and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan
It’s really important to have balance, spend some time in nature, go to a few parties, enjoy my friends and really chill out.
Joakim Noah
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Heinrich Heine
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke
At the end of the day, you can’t compete with Mother Nature. If you’ve got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
Zac Posen
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
Stuart Hall
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
Samuel Daniel
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fuller
I’m a really natural person; I love nature.
Lindsey Wixson
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Thomas Hood
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas a Kempis
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
David Hume
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Ellen G. White
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Elizabeth Appell
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
Elvis Presley
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
Thomas Kinkade
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer
All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
Werner Heisenberg
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
John James Audubon
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
Maria Montessori
Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
Sitting Bull
Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad
What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me – nature, hills, people, and even insects.
Ruskin Bond
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Steven Pinker
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Charles Mackay
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
Richard Rohr
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver
I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
Jordan Peterson
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
Bjork
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Tacitus
Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.
Sylvie Guillem
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O’Keeffe
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
Richard Jefferies
Birds have wings; they’re free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
E. M. Forster
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
Kate Winslet
You can’t just let nature run wild.
Walt Disney
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
Anthony Hopkins
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
Rudolf Steiner
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas
So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.
Chantal Sutherland
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
Ramana Maharshi
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Nature is neutral.
Adlai Stevenson I
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor
Family, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-John
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Carl Sandburg
We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
David Suzuki
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
Andrew Weil
Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.
Neil Young
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
Gerard Way
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others’ feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others’ weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all – to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
Ezra Taft Benson
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
William Cullen Bryant
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.
Dmitri Mendeleev
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Paracelsus
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid
Man is nature’s sole mistake.
William Gilbert
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.
Nikola Tesla
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It’s geometrically perfect. It’s tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard – or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
Gretchen Rubin
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
Maria Montessori
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Jordan Peterson
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.
Paul Muni
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
Ann Voskamp
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.
John Dryden
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
John Marshall
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that’s part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
Paul Dirac
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
Maria Montessori
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Autumn’s the mellow time.
William Allingham
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Deepak Chopra
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Alvar Aalto
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator’s work.
Robert Baden-Powell
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke
Habit is ten times nature.
Duke of Wellington
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Norman MacCaig
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
Jilly Cooper
Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
Nature was my kindergarten.
William Christopher Handy
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
William Cullen Bryant
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Johannes Kepler
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola Tesla
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
Steve Lacy
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
Edouard Manet
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Abraham Maslow
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
Christopher Columbus
I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Annie Leibovitz
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran Lebowitz
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Graham Greene
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
Annie Leibovitz
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
Hunter S. Thompson
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
Jacques Perrin
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.
Steven Weinberg
Law is born from despair of human nature.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Wendell Berry
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson
The key to nature’s therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There’s amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted – but that’s not your act of creation, it’s your act of joining in.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
Louie Schwartzberg
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
Scott Cook
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear
By the time we get to the 2040s, we’ll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that’s singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Ray Kurzweil
Polka dots can’t stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
Yayoi Kusama
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
Annie Besant
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams
To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
Reinhold Messner
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.
David Suzuki
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
Martha Beck
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‘Do as You promised.’
Charles Spurgeon
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
Franz Marc
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
Simon Sinek
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
Ben Carson
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro
My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.
Vangelis
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Ezra Taft Benson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.
Paul Muni
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Burl Ives
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it’s important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
Nicola Formichetti
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
Sinclair Lewis
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Ramana Maharshi
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Sylvia Earle
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
Henry Morton Stanley
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau
I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.
Princess Nokia
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
Philip James Bailey
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad Iqbal
Land really is the best art.
Andy Warhol
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Shelley
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Carl von Clausewitz
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There’s no night without stars.
Andre Norton
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
Sissy Spacek
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
Paul Stamets
I’m a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there’s fresh air. Apart from that, I’m a film addict and a DVD freak.
Murray Bartlett
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Phyllis Schlafly
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
I can’t go against my nature because I am what I am. I don’t try to be anyone different to who I am.
Brian McDermott
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature.
Claude Debussy
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
Edgar Allan Poe
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.
Ruth Bernhard
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
Alexander Hamilton
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
Emily Carr
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.
Geraldo Rivera
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
Steven Pinker
A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It’s just the nature of the game. It doesn’t bother me.
Draymond Green
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Ambrose Bierce
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Vitruvius
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
Harry Reasoner
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.
Roscoe Mitchell
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
Brian Greene
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Che Guevara
By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.
Rohit Shetty
Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
J. Paul Getty
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
Lucy Hale
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Paul Cezanne
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Sai Baba
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon Hill
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Leonardo da Vinci
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson
The view of Earth is spectacular.
Sally Ride
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Galileo Galilei
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Honore de Balzac
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we’ve said it exists does not really exist in nature.
Nicole Maines
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Walter Martin
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Brigham Young
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Robert Fulghum
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
Russel Honore
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
I’m a bit of a loner, you know? I’m more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I’m probably more reserved.
Brad Pitt
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.
Etel Adnan
I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
John Keats
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse
Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, ‘Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.’ People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.
Wim Hof
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Bjork
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte
We all have these shades in our nature: it’s a spectrum within all of us.
Johnny Flynn
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
Isaac Newton
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn’t figure into was human nature, and that’s what corrupts it.
Jesse Ventura
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must return to nature and nature’s god.
Luther Burbank
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Plato
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Rebecca Harding Davis
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
I say you don’t need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
Michael Shermer
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
George W. Bush
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man’s inner nature.
Ron Perlman
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Marilyn French
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir
And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin’ brown and golden under a sinkin’ sun.
Roy Bean
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleonora Duse
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai Lama
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Muhammad Iqbal
When you say ‘control freak’ and ‘OCD’ and ‘organized,’ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.
Taylor Swift
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
Alexander the Great
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
Isaac Newton
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
The groves were God’s first temples.
William Cullen Bryant
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
Paul Cezanne
When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude.
Miranda Kerr
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin
Giant oak trees… have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Pope Paul VI
If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob Marley
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
James Montgomery
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.
Richard Louv
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.
Virat Kohli
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
Sheri L. Dew
I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.
Cote de Pablo
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold
Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say ‘we,’ I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
Gael Garcia Bernal
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin
My nature just changes.
Jimi Hendrix
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emil Cioran
I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
Antoni Gaudi
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
Alan Greenspan
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
Priyanka Chopra
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
W. H. Auden
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
Warren Buffett
Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Bodhidharma
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Empedocles
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark Twain
What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you’re getting insights about God.
Bruce Lipton
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander Pope
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
Herbert Read
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste Rodin
I’m not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.
Peter Handke
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It’s the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it – no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
Pink
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature’s, not honour’s law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
Wallace Stevens
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Francois Rabelais
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou
To many people, ‘biodiversity’ is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature,’ and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
Cary Fowler
You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
Christian Dior
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
Jim Woodring
I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob Dylan
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis
The primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis de Sade
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
Anthony Hopkins
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
Mattie Stepanek
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
James St. James
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.
Frans van Houten
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Nikola Tesla
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. Feynman
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
William Cullen Bryant
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus Aurelius
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Harrison Ford
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Laurence J. Peter
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Thomas Jefferson
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
Marco Pierre White
