Quotes on Nature

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.