Quotes on Nature

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.

I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a sense of our own self-worth and ideas for the future.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.

Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.