Quotes on Nature

The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the_x000D_ _x000D_ breaking of new blooms.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is_x000D_ _x000D_ too few.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

To see her is to love her,_x000D_ _x000D_ And love but her forever;_x000D_ _x000D_ For nature made her what she is,_x000D_ _x000D_ And never made anither!

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates. Indeed, the beauty and elegance of the physical laws themselves are only apparent when expressed in the appropriate mathematical framework.