NATURE QUOTES

quotations about nature

Nature quote

We do not undertake to quarrel with the laws of nature. Our ignorance oftentimes puts us in opposition to them, and a very expensive position we find it to be, because they never yield, and in the end, of course, we must.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

Re-statements of Christian Doctrine

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Nature has a wonderful power of putting things right, if allowed free play.

JAMES PLATT

Platt's Essays


Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida

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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

FRANCIS BACON

Novum Organum

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All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

JENNETTE LEE

The Symphony Play

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Nature is necessary for our physical and psychological wellbeing. Interacting with nature teaches us to live in relation with the other, not in domination over the other: You don't control the birds flying overhead, or the moon rising, or the bear walking where it would like to walk. In my appraisal, one of the overarching problems of the world today is that we see ourselves living in domination over rather than in relation with other people and with the natural world.

PETER KAHN

"Technology is changing our relationship with nature as we know it", Quartz, August 8, 2017


Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task

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If Nature put not forth her power
About the opening of the flower,
Who is it that could live an hour?

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Two Voices

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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks to amend.

ARISTOTLE

On the Generation of Animals

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[Nature] is all things. She rewards herself and punishes herself; and in herself rejoices and is distressed. She is rough and gentle, loving and terrible, powerless and almighty. In her everything is always present. Past or Future she knows not. The Present is her Eternity.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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[Nature] spurts forth her creatures out of nothing, and tells them not whence they come and whither they go. They have only to go their way: she knows the path.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

The Character of Physical Law

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Nature repeats herself, or almost does: repeat, repeat, repeat, revise, revise, revise.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

North Haven

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

EDMUND BURKE

Letters on a Regicide Peace

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Nature, with its fragile yet resilient magnificence, models for us what aliveness means and reminds us that we are mortal.

MARIA POPOVA

"Poetry as Protest and Sanctuary", brainpickings, April 18, 2017


A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

"Maelstrom II"

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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

speech, July 25, 1924

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