Nature Quotes

You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to your...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

I love the forest.

Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is un...

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecess...

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman ...

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but wi...

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the univer...

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life--he says it chills us an...

Here is perhaps the most delicious turn that comes out of thinking about politics from the standpoin...

If we are here for any good purpose at all (other than collating texts, running rivers, and learning...

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whic...

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuc...

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Her lips trembled, and so did his. It was never known which lips were the first to move towards the ...

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature ha...

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the ear...

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natur...

After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because ...

Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.

Yet even so, Jon Snow was not sorry he had come. There were wonders here as well. He had seen sunlig...

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rai...

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it rema...

The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meanin...

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence...

The earth has its music for those who will listen.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur...

Consciousness is a born hermit.

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is ama...

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marve...

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes t...

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – ...

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I ...

Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, w...

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them gi...

...O if we but knew what to do When we delve or hew— Hack and rack the growing green! Since country ...

...Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve:After-comers cannot gue...

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people an...

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seasho...

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have...

People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along.

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...

...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe o...

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I p...

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who ...

Nature loves death: she will not punish it.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and...

It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like cryst...

When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when ...

There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves th...

Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is contin...

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling ...

The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hi...

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Na...

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds...

Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet...

Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is u...

Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even t...

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to real...

The modern age, with its growing world-alienation, has led to a situation where man, wherever he goe...

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scienti...

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...

Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the pow...

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympath...

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down...

It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes e...

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and ...

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at l...

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a ...

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarc...

I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature m...

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors o...

To be able to see and study undisturbed the processes of nature--I like better the old Biblical phra...

We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been sa...

And what of Nature itself, you say – that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it ...

The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, ...

A year indoors is a journey along a paper calendar; a year in outer nature is the accomplishment of ...

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

And what of Nature itself, you say--that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang? Well, it i...