Nature Quotes

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Thomas Jefferson

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Edouard Manet

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Andy Goldsworthy

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Franz Liszt

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

Alexander Pope

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Jules Verne

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

William Bartram

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

Danielle Dax

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

Marie Curie

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

Aristotle

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe