Quotes on Nature

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.