Nature Quotes

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is ...

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature.

Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects, but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature ...

The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive our...

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucke...

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially go...

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through ...

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has n...

Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and...

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term n...

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the "Survival of the fittest" is more accurate...

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even C...

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings wh...

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of...

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, t...

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful ...

What are the temples which Roman robbers have reared, - what are the towers in which feudal oppressi...

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you...

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger ...

A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience ...

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man c...

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly ...

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more th...

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King R...

My dream is to save women from nature.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with ...

Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands w...

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

There were two ways of looking at it: imagining that it was far away and big, in the first place; in...

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

There's as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom," responde...

My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and myster...

First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and gen...

Nature is a strong brand name. Everybody knew that. First thing, Nomenclature 101. Slap Natural on t...

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, n...

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we ge...

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution o...

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of c...

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences i...

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like ic...

The young man, perched insecurely in the slen­der branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reac...

There was the loud noise of water, as ever, something eternal and maddening in its sound, like the s...

From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insenti...

It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, ...

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into t...

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches ...

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. Bu...

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a p...

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhy...

Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matt...

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and ...

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult r...

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, ...

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem...

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the r...

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bir...

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environmen...

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides...

Now, over half of us live in an urban environment. My home, too, is here in the city of London. Look...

The world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that ...

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgund...

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our s...

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces imp...

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology an...

We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet...

A high degree of intelligence yes in no other creature in the natural world. That's why nature shuns...

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you...

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simpl...

Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives t...

Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is ...