Famous Nature Quotes
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
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.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Nature's symphony of sights, sounds, and scents is a feast for the senses.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Nature's resilience in the face of adversity teaches us the strength and courage to overcome our own challenges.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Nature's landscapes are like works of art that leave us in awe and wonder.
In nature, we find peace for our restless souls and inspiration for our creative spirits.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Nature is a powerful healer, offering us peace and restoration.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
Nature's landscapes are like pages of a living book, inviting us to read and explore its stories.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
In nature's presence, we are reminded of our interconnectedness with all living beings and the Earth itself.
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
