Quotes about nature

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"The unnatural, that too is natural."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"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."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more."

Gordon, George on nature   

"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."

Havhamess, Alan on nature   

"Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion."

Hedge, Francis Herbert on nature   

"The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand."

Heisenberg on nature   

"Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines."

Hoffer, Eric on nature   

"You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back."

Horace on nature   

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."

Hugo, Victor on nature   

"A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city."

James, P. D. on nature   

"Nature never says one thing and wisdom another."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on nature   

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

Keillor, Garrison on nature   

"The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."

Kepler, Johannes on nature   

"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

Kepler, Johannes on nature   

"Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn."

Klee, Paul on nature   

"Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is."

Krutch, Joseph Wood on nature   

"Nature is not human hearted."

Lao-Tzu on nature   

"All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature."

Law, William on nature   

"We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on nature   

"The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on nature   

"Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos."

Mackay, Eric on nature   

"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."

Marx, Karl on nature   

"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable."

Maugham, W. Somerset on nature   

"It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature."

Meynell, Alice on nature   

"The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity."

Molescholte on nature   

"Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on nature   

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness."

Muir, John on nature   

"If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Their is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background."

Murchie, Guy on nature   

"Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on nature   

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

Parton, Dolly on nature   

"Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom."

Picabia, Francis on nature   

"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."

Pirandello, Luigi on nature   

"All nature is but art unknown to thee."

Pope, Alexander on nature   

"No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky."

Powys, Llewelyn on nature   

"Nature surpasses nurture."

Proverb on nature   

"Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat."

Proverb, Irish on nature   

"Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the correspondence through which we may know our boundless selves."

Raine, Kathleen on nature