Quotes on Nature

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

The summer breeze was blowing on your face_x000D_ _x000D_ Within your violet you treasure your summery words_x000D_ _x000D_ And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine_x000D_ _x000D_ Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.