Nature Quotes
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at one; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains – matter is eternal.
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s heart, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Earth does not belong to us, we belong to earth.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Flowers are the earth laughing.
I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Nature is all things. She rewards herself and punishes herself; and in herself rejoices and is distressed. She is rough and gentle, loving and terrible, powerless and almighty. In her everything is always present. Past or Future she knows not. The Present is her Eternity.
Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
Labor is the only prayer that nature answers.
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!