Nature Quotes

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Henry David Thoreau

It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

Jane Austen

Nature can do more than physicians.

Oliver Cromwell

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

Henry David Thoreau

Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Ambrose Bierce

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

William Shatner

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Wole Soyinka

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Albert J. Nock

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Bodhidharma

Custom is second nature.

Augustine of Hippo

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

Robin Williams

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

John Burroughs

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Bob Dylan

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton