Nature Quotes

"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
-Voltaire

"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

"Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
-Aristotle

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
-Aristotle

"Nature does nothing uselessly."
-Aristotle

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
-Oscar Wilde

"Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence."
-Nikola Tesla

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
-Tennessee Williams

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
-Mother Teresa

"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."
-Scott Westerfeld

"There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
-Jimmy Carter

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile."
-Viggo Mortensen

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."
-Heinrich Heine

"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm."
-Jeremy Bentham

"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
-John Glenn

"There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
-Auguste Rodin

"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
-John Cheever

"The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival."
-Morris K. Udall

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
-Walt Whitman

"You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things."
-Walt Whitman

"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski

"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
-Marcus Fabius Quintilian

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
-H. G. Wells