Top 640 Nature Quotes

In this post, you will find great Nature Quotes from famous people, such as Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Nicola Formichetti, Khalil Gibran, Deepak Chopra, Ralph Waldo Emerson. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, wakin

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
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.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
The earth laughs in flowers.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
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.
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
Walter Gilbert
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 mansocial and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.
Dmitri Mendeleev
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
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.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
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
Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
My real personality comes out in the country. More spontaneous, more excited. There’s always someone watching you in the city – you’re a sort of zoo animal. My true nature is to want to hide a bit.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
William Bartram
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.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter dea

Sleep is Mother Nature‘s best effort yet to counter death.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antoni Gaudi
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
That’s what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Antoine Lavoisier
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.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
Samuel Daniel
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.
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.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
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.
Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There’s something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
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.
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
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.
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon b

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.
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.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
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
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I playedskiing, baseball, fishing – there is no greater example than golf, because you’re playing against yourself and nature.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb
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.
In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
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.
The view of Earth is spectacular.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Hosea Ballou
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
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.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up

Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don’t become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.
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.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there’s the coolness of the breeze. It’s really comfortable.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
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
I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.
Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.
Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
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.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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!
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.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn’t affect the entire forest.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Zhuangzi
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Antoni Gaudi
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.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
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.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
Edward Jenner
I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.
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.
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.
The world is always in movement.
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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
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
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
I love the relentless nature of a side that never gives up.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
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.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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.
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.
Standing Bear
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind i

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
Robert Graham
We talk of communing with Nature, but ‘tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou
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
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
The sky is the source of light in nature – and governs everything.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don’t expect.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of 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.
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.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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.
When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it’s the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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.’
Nature’s my muse and it’s been my passion.
Frans Lanting
The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
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 must return to nature and nature's god.

We must return to nature and nature’s god.
Luther Burbank
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
Jean Ingelow
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
I’m cursed with empathy. I’m also by nature way too opinionated.
John Shirley
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri
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.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
Childe Hassam
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexander
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Empedocles
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.
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.
Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.
Larry Wilcox
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
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.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
Henry Morton Stanley
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
John Joly
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
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.
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
Kate Chopin
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That’s my nature.
Madison Smartt Bell
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
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.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control ou

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
William Ruckelshaus
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
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
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.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Thomas Hood
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
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.
The highest-quality protein in nature is whey.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton
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.
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
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.
Johannes Kepler
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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.
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.
In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.
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
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Alexander the Great
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
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.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Nature abhors a vacuum.

Nature abhors a vacuum.
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Emily Bronte
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
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.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
Nature is not human hearted.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
The skull is nature’s sculpture.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Hamlin Garland
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.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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.
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen

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.
The groves were God’s first temples.
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
Russel Honore
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.
It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
Paul Dirac
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It’s beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can’t see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
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
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.
Paul Muni
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.
I’m very inspired by nature – you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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.
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.
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
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
Martin Buber
I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
My boy, one small breeze doesn’t make a wind storm.
John McGraw
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
I’m not opposed to a fancy meal, but I’ll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.
Ryan Paevey
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain n

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
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.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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.
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.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste Rodin
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey
I am two with nature.
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
I’m obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That’s an actual possible way you could die.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Nature does nothing in vain.
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.
Vangelis
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.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
Geoffrey Chaucer
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
It is not the language of painters but the language of

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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.
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.
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.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses – on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It’s just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I’m not stingy.
It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl
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.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell
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.
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed – the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?
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.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Alvar Aalto
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Matsuo Basho
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Daniel Boone
Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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.
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
What a book a devil‘s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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
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.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
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
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
Ivan Turgenev
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.
The world, when you look at it, it just can’t be random. I mean, it’s so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we’ve seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can exte

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.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.
Hamlin Garland
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Do activities you’re passionate about – which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
We all have these shades in our nature: it’s a spectrum within all of us.
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?
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.
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.
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Nature has always had more force than education.
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.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
Mother Nature is not sweet.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
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.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
Maria Sibylla Merian
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
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.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
Ruth St. Denis
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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.
Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
Thomas Watson, Jr.
That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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.
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.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
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.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
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.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro
Family, nature and health all go together.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the soun

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Henry Beston
There is the sky, which is all men’s together.
When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude.
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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!
Man is nature’s sole mistake.
William Gilbert
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
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.
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Dorothy Thompson
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
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.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn’t make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.
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.
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
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
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural,

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles
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
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin’ brown and golden under a sinkin’ sun.
Roy Bean
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley
Man is by nature a political animal.
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.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
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.
We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
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.
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Bryan Procter
You can’t just let nature run wild.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
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
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both p

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay
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.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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.
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.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland