Nature Quotes

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equ...

...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the e...

The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil...

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that h...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that Go...

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become...

Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you...

Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them they're like museums full of good food. It's...

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, an...

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social bound...

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of ...

The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does ...

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is insid...

We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

Nature is energy and struggle. It is what exists without any promise. If it can be thought of by man...

We know a lot nowadays about how to extrapolate from rats to people, but we don't only have to rely ...

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami...

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, b...

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, ...

Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sen...

Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals ...

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an inc...

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own ho...

I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited u...

Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind i...

Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technolog...

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow...

Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they r...

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where t...

I found the poems in the fields,And only wrote them down.

O take me from the busy crowd,I cannot bear the noise!For Nature's voice is never loud;I seek for qu...

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the...

If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wre...

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal

But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an a...

For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own righ...

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silen...

We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust...

We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we diss...

The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingen...

These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only cu...

Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind...

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longin...

In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of langua...

This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter ob...

And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are ...

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable region...

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed f...

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and t...

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him h...

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morni...

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,And the watch fire under stars, and slee...

I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier...

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-ca...

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to s...

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...

And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the...

The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -...

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirli...

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to t...

Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's pea...

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and ch...

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mo...

Going to the woods is going home.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in ...

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into f...

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness....

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognize...

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a...

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nat...

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themsel...

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, w...

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a sh...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing the...

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, fill...

Nothing truly wild is unclean.