Here we have the best Nature Quotes from famous authors such as Jordan Peterson, Richard P. Feynman, Matthew Green, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Merton. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
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.
The sky is the source of light in nature – and governs everything.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Maybe it’s stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.
You can’t just let nature run wild.
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.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It’s geometrically perfect. It’s tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard – or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Land really is the best art.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Mother Nature is not sweet.
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.
All art is but imitation of nature.
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.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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.
I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.
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.
For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
Nature is not human hearted.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
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.
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
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?
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.
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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.
I am two with nature.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
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.
I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
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.
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.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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.
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
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.
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.
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that.
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
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.
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.
For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.
Moonlight is sculpture.
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
Moonlight is sculpture.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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.
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.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
I love the relentless nature of a side that never gives up.
Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you’re lucky, you get strange clues.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
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.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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.
I am a family person and also very emotional by nature.
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.
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
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.
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.
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
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.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
I’m cursed with empathy. I’m also by nature way too opinionated.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
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.
We must return to nature and nature’s god.
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.
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Whether we and 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.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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.
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
We talk of communing with Nature, but ‘tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?
There is the sky, which is all men’s together.
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.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Family, nature and health all go together.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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.
For a long time, men weren’t respecting women. They weren’t understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
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.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Nature was my kindergarten.
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.
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.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
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.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
Earth is a flower and it’s pollinating.
Nature’s my muse and it’s been my passion.
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.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.
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.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?
To many people, ‘biodiversity‘ is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature,’ and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
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.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
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.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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.
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.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
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.
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That’s my nature.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Sleep is Mother Nature’s best effort yet to counter death.
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
Nature does nothing in vain.
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
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.
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’
Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man’s inner nature.
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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.
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.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
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.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Sunlight is painting.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren’t laughing, it’s not comedy. It’s as simple as that.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
The groves were God’s first temples.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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 soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
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.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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.
My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.
The view of Earth is spectacular.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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.
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
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.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
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.
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.
Polka dots can’t stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Nature is the art of God.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
There is no forgiveness in nature.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
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.
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.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
All nature wears one universal grin.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
