NATURE QUOTES VI

quotations about nature

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The line of Nature is crooked ... though we dig the canal beds as straight as we can, the rivers run hither and thither in their wildness.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Ideas of Good and Evil

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Nature isn't just something that pushes up through the sidewalk cracks and keeps the farmers trapped in the sticks but is an elixir, a luxury that can be bought and fenced off and kept pure for the more fortunate, in an impure age.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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There is constant life in [Nature], motion and development; and yet she remains where she was. She is eternally changing, nor for a moment does she stand still. Of rest she knows nothing, and to all stagnation she has affixed her curse. She is steadfast; her step is measured, her exceptions rare, her laws immutable.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Nature talks in symbols; he who lacks imagination cannot understand her.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

"Our Lonely Home in Nature", The New York Times, May 2, 2014

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Nature does nothing uselessly.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Search out the wisdom of Nature, there is depth in all her doings.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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Nature is God perpetually working; and we need only look around us to see and to feel that truth of a Providence to which our deepest instincts turn.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Tatler, August 26, 1710

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The man or woman that sees no beauty in surrounding nature has a soul that sleeps.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On the Endless Beauty in Nature", Short Essays


The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

"Premonition", A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems

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Nature never breaks her laws.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds--and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind of civilization that would choke the spirit of joy out of our hearts. He made the great open places for the people who want to be alone with him and talk to him, away from the crowds that kill all reverence. And I think that he is glad at times to have us forget our cares and responsibilities that we may be nearer him--as Jesus was when he crept away into the wilderness to pray.

MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER

"The Gypsy Spirit"

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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

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Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

JEROME K. JEROME

"Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad"

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Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

remark made during Einstein's visit to Princeton University, May 1921

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