Nature Quotes

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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

Colors are the smiles of nature.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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