Nature has been for me, for as
long as I remember, a source of
solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight;
a home, a teacher, a companion.
?Lorraine Anderson
Art is man's nature:
Nature is God's art.
?Philip James Bailey
Nature always tends to act
in the simplest way.
?Bernoulli
I look upon all creatures equally;
none are less dear to me and
none more dear. But those who worship
me with love live in me,
and I come to life in them.
?Bhagavad Gita
All things are artificial,
for nature is the art of God.
?Sir Thomas Browne
Nature's law affirm instead of
prohibit. If you violate her laws, you
are your own prosecuting attorney,
judge, jury, and hangman.
?Luther Burbank
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap,
nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
?James Carswell
Nothing is more beautiful than the
loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
?George Washington Carver
Nature is a good name for an
effect whose cause is God.
?William Cowper
Occurrences in this domain are beyond
the reach of exact prediction because
of the variety of factors in operation, not
because of any lack of order in nature.
?Albert Einstein
Everything in Nature contains all the
powers of Nature.
Everything is made of hidden stuff.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is an endless combination and repetition
of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known
air through innumerable variations.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature... She pardons no mistakes.
Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled.
?Richard P. Feynman
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence
exist in each individual of the species,
can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
?Henry Fuseli
Nature goes her own way and all
that to us seems an exception
is really according to order.
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes.
By the deep sea, and music in its roars;
I love not man the less, but nature more.
?George Gordon
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
?Alan Havhamess
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
?Decimus Junius Juvenal
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
?Johannes Kepler
Nature is not human hearted.
?Lao-Tzu
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm,
and tells of chaos.
?Eric Mackay
The law of nature is the strictest
expression of necessity.
?Molescholte
The clearest way into the universe
is through a forest wilderness.
?John Muir
Nature uses human imagination to lift her
work of creation to even higher levels.
?Luigi Pirandello
No sight is more provocative
of awe than is the night sky.
?Llewelyn Powys
See one promontory, one mountain,
one sea, one river and see all.
?Socrates
Man is a complex being;
he makes the deserts
bloom and lakes die.
?Gil Stern
For I have learned to look on
nature, not as in the hour of
thoughtless youth, but hearing
oftentimes the still,
sad music of humanity.
?William Wordsworth
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
?Frank Lloyd Wright
Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible
wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces,
but she is a million fathoms deep.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot command nature
except by obeying her.
?Francis Bacon
I would feel more optimistic about a
bright future for man if he spent less
time proving that he can outwit Nature
and more time tasting her sweetness
and respecting her seniority.
?Elwyn Brooks White
We could have saved the Earth but
we were too damned cheap.
?Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors;
we borrow it from our children.
?Haida Indian saying
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to
forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
?Albert Schweitzer
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric
clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
?Ian McHarg
Wild animals never kill for sport.
Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his
fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
?James Anthony Froude
Man is the only animal that can remain on
friendly terms with the victims
he intends to eat until he eats them.
?Samuel Butler
When a man wantonly destroys one of the
works of man we call him a vandal.
When he destroys one of the works
of God we call him a sportsman.
?Joseph Wood Krutch
The sun, the moon and the stars would
have disappeared long ago,
had they happened to be within
reach of predatory human hands.
?Havelock Ellis
We who revel in nature's diversity and
feel instructed by every animal tend to
brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe
since the Cretaceous extinction.
?Stephen Jay Gould
Complete adaptation to environment means
death. The essential point in all response is
the desire to control environment.
?John Dewey
Because we don't think about future
generations,
they will never forget us.
?Henrik Tikkanen
We have nowhere else to go...
this is all we have.
?Margaret Mead
Lack of awareness of the basic unity
of organism and environment is a
serious and dangerous hallucination.
?Alan Wilson Watts
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence
of humanity. We are all formed of frailty
and error; let us pardon reciprocally each
other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
?Voltaire
He who has so little knowledge of human
nature as to seek happiness by changing
anything but his own disposition will
waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
?Samuel Johnson
Married love between man and woman is
bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
?Aeschylus
There are mystically in our faces certain
characters which carry in them the motto of
our souls, wherin he that cannot
read A, B, C may read our natures.
?Sir Thomas Browne
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they
may acknowledge many others to be more witty,
or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly
believe there be many so wise as themselves.
?Thomas Hobbes
He got a corporation mind. He
doesn't believe in nature; he puts
his trust and distrust in man.
?Norman Mailer
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
Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.
?John Updike
As for evolution, I have a hard time believing
that billions of years ago two protozoan
bumped into each other under a volcanic
cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.
?Robert G.Lee
