Nature Quotes

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"There is the sky, which is all men's together."

"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all."

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

"Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?"

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

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

"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade."

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

"Nature does nothing in vain."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at."

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

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."

"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

"Nature abhors annihilation."

"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."

"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."

"Nature is neutral."

"Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be."

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean."

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon."

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

"Sunlight is painting."

"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

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

"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor."

"Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual."

"Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne."