Quotes on Nature

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Nature tells every secret once.

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!