Nature Quotes

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Orison Swett Marden

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Olive Schreiner

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

Sigmund Freud

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hippocrates

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Camille Paglia

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Aristotle

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.

Proverb

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Phillips Brooks

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

Henry David Thoreau

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Clint Eastwood

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Blaise Pascal

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Yvon Chouinard

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

William C. Bryant

Nature surpasses nurture.

Proverb