Nature Quotes

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Alfred Tennyson

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the fo

Henry David Thoreau

He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, that May blooms, that the dawn whitens behind the black trees on the shivering summit of the hills?

Victor Hugo

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it

Bertrand Russell

For the whole year long I seeAll the wonders of faithful NatureStill worked for the love of me;Winds wander, and dews drip earthward,Rain falls, suns rise and set,Earth whirls, and all but to prosperA poor little violet.

James Russell Lowell, The Changl

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Arthur C. Clarke

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.

Christy Turlington

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Charles Eastman

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Marquis de Sade

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Ayelet Waldman

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Cass Sunstein

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Barack Obama

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Maynard James Keenan

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon