Quotes on Nature

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.