Quotes about nature

"I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them."

Bhagavad Gita on nature
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"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."

Blake, William on nature
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Bronowski, Jacob on nature   

"Nature is the art of God."

Dante Alighieri on nature
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"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

Browne, Sir Thomas on nature   

"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."

Buck, Pearl S. on nature   

"Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."

Burbank, Luther on nature   

"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."

Byron, Lord on nature
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"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro on nature   

"If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation."

Camus, Albert on nature   

"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."

Carroll, Lewis on nature   

"The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."

Carson, Rachel on nature
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"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse."

Carswell, James on nature
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"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."

Carver, George Washington on nature   

"That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds."

Child, Lydia M. on nature   

"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."

Cowper, William on nature   

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on nature
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"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"

Darwin, Charles R. on nature   

"Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem."

Dickinson, Emily on nature   

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

Disraeli, Benjamin on nature   

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"Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever."

Dyke, Henry Van on nature   

"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."

Dylan, Bob on nature   

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"The environment is everything that isn't me."

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"A man is related to all nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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"We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

Feynman, Richard P. on nature   

"All nature wears one universal grin."

Fielding, Henry on nature
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"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."

France, Anatole on nature   

"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 and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

Frank, Anne on nature
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"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."

Fuller, Margaret on nature
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"Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object."

Fuseli, Henry on nature