Nature Quotations

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

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

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.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

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.

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.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.

Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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.

I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

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.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

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.

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

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.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe that when I feel happy, that's when I look beautiful... I make a point of laughing out loud every single day.

My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

When you're in nature, when you're going to bed when the sun goes down and getting up when the sun rises, and you get into that rhythm, your body just really responds positively to it.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

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.