Quotes

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
-Lao Tzu

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature hates calculators.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
-Rudyard Kipling

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
-Blaise Pascal

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
-Claude Monet

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
-William James

Nature never goes out of style.
-Anonymous Author

The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
-John Burroughs

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
-Anonymous Author

Nature is just enough, but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
-Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...
-Anonymous Author

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
-Seneca

Nature will not be admired by proxy.
-Winston Churchill

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-Socrates

Nature is a writer's best friend.
-Agave Powers

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
-Proverb

Wise men are instructed by reason, men of less understanding, by experience, the most ignorant, by necessity, the beasts, by nature.
-Marcus Tullius

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
-Martin Luther

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
-Emily Dickinson

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
-Rabindranath Tagore

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
-Juvenal, Satires

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
-Andre Breton

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
-Henry David Thoreau

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-Francis Bacon

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.
-Aristotle

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
-Albert Einstein

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
-St. Bernard

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
-Albert Einstein

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.
-Anonymous Author

If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
-Standing Bear

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor, if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.
-Seneca

Nature is my medicine.
-Sara Moss

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.
-Anonymous Author

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
-Henry David Thoreau

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body, the sound of running water is his great speech.
-Dogen

Nature is the art of God.
-Thomas Browne

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson