Nature Quotes - Page 2

The sun - my almighty physician.

Thomas Jefferson

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Richard Feynman

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Cicero

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you'll become a poet.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.

Percival

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Walso Emerson

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

William Wordsworth

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

John Muir

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest the butterflies the song of the birds if we can't see the stars at night.

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

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

Nature is saturated with deity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Ayn Rand

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.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Gil Stern

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you wish to know the divine feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal every flower a window opening into heaven a mirror reflecting the Creator.

John Muir

Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.

Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us but we've forgotten how to listen.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

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

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

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nature thrives on patience man on impatience.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Rabindranath Tagore

What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.

Edith M. Thomas

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay harvests perish flowers vanish but grass is immortal.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Henry David Thoreau

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.

Dean William R. Inge

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roethke

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

George Santayana

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

G.K. Chesterton

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

T.S Eliot

Like a gardener I believe that what goes down must come up.

Lynwood L. Giacomini

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Lao Tzu

Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

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