Nature Quotes

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

Henri Rousseau, Artist

"The Amen of nature is always a flower"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"All art is but imitation of nature"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

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

Alice Walker, Author

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"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, President

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral"

John Burroughs, Author

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"

Juvenal, Poet

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Art will never be able to exist without nature"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation"

Edwin Way Teale

"Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not"

Howard Thurman, Educator

"I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature"

Caspar David Friedrich, Artist

"I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'"

Laura Riding, Poet

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion"

Anatole France, Novelist

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