Top 100 From Nature Quotes
#1. Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature,
Alex Epstein
#2. the further humans move from nature, the crazier they get. In
Rita Mae Brown
#3. There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.
Andrew Schneider
#4. There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
#5. When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.
Debasish Mridha
#6. TO my quick ear the leaves conferred;
The bushes they were bells;
I could not find a privacy
From Nature's sentinels.
In cave if I presumed to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible.
Emily Dickinson
#7. Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
But here is not a question of what's sacred;
Rather of what to face or run away from.
I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
Robert Frost
#8. Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Quintilian
#9. Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.
Judi Dench
#10. Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't.
Edward Burtynsky
#11. Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
Plutarch
#12. The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
Alister MacKenzie
#13. Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#14. I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
Ariel Sharon
#16. By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.
Paul Gauguin
#17. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Adam Smith
#18. A real man knows how to nurture nature and nurture himself from nature.
Marcus L. Lukusa
#19. Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.
Marc Bekoff
#20. What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?
Amy Reed
#21. I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I wrest from nature excellence in letters.
Lisa See
#23. When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and certainly the native peoples of California who still have their communities intact, it is what they have always known: that we are not apart from nature but a part of it.
Terry Tempest Williams
#24. I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
Luther Burbank
#25. Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
Susan Griffin
#26. I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.
Erich Fromm
#27. When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
#28. Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
Roberto Cavalli
#29. The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Peter Senge
#30. We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.
Tadao Ando
#31. Wanda Bone Bouvier had that thing that makes a hound leap against its cage. It ws a quality that was partly a bonus from nature and partly learned from cheesecake calendars and Tanya Tucker albums.
Daniel Woodrell
#32. We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
James Balog
#33. From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence.
Scot McKnight
#34. Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.
Camille Paglia
#35. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
Don DeLillo
#36. You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.
CRICHTON Michael
#38. It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley
#39. New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
Samuel Johnson
#40. The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.
Bruce Schneier
#41. Oh, to survive
thirty-seven years on just a particle of dew!
To need exactly nothing. To sprout
weapons from your own fibrous flesh.
To bloody those
who hover in to feed you.
From, "Nature Conservancy, Spring
Kristen McHenry
#42. I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
Adolph Gottlieb
#43. Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.
James Hollis
#44. Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. We also are apart of nature, certainly not separate from nature.
Bryan Kest
#45. Pantheism identifies man with Nature. whether its visible appearance, or its abstract essence. Personalism isolates, separates him from Nature; converts him from a part into the whole, into an absolute essence by himself.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#46. True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Seneca The Younger
#47. Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#48. Science makes an error," he said, the gentle laughter fading from his voice, "in cutting itself off from nature. In thinking of itself as separate. I feel a chill inside my heart when I imagine where such an error might lead.
Dan Brown
#49. Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
Martin Rees
#50. The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Robert B. Laughlin
#51. It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
Paracelsus
#52. Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.
Joshua Reynolds
#53. A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding
#54. Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#55. Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#56. But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
John Calvin
#58. I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.
Bridget Riley
#60. It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
Philip Emeagwali
#61. For when it is in the hope of making a priceless discovery that we desire to receive certain impressions from nature or from works of art, we have qualms lest our soul imbibe inferior impressions which might lead us to form a false estimate of the value of Beauty.
Marcel Proust
#62. Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
Bear Grylls
#63. Lesson learned from nature cannot be taught by teacher.
Kishore Bansal
#64. The more man alienates himself from Nature, the more subjective, i.e., supranatural or antinatural, is his view of things, the greater the horror he has of Nature, or at least of those natural objects and processes which displease his imagination, which affect him disagreeably.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#65. Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.
Steven Magee
#66. Nature is not out there; it is in your being. You came from nature.
Debasish Mridha
#67. I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire ... When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.
Alan Lee
#68. Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Antoni Gaudi
#69. No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.
Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
Anne Rice
#70. A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That's what unlonely is like
David Levithan
#71. Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.
Franz Marc
#72. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
Luther Standing Bear
#73. Our main problem is a lack of understanding of what it means to be human and that we are not separate from nature.
Jacque Fresco
#74. No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Denis Diderot
#75. Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
Samuel Johnson
#77. For this present, hard
Is the fortune of the bard,
Born out of time;
All his accomplishment,
From Nature's utmost treasure spent,
Booteth not him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#79. As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
Vince Staples
#80. The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.
Cennino Cennini
#81. The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible.
Linda Mason Hunter
#82. Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne
#83. We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.
Thomas Sterner
#84. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#85. Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
#86. I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.
Alice Walker
#87. The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
Thomas Carlyle
#88. Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
Immanuel Kant
#89. You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
Talib Kweli
#90. Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illness. This disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.
Richard Louv
#91. My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.
Max Born
#92. The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#93. I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.
E. J. Hughes
#94. I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me ... I milk the sky and the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
Claude Monet
#96. If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
Brett Dennen
#97. I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#98. The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.
Bill Vaughan
#99. The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
E. J. Hughes
#100. America is more than just a place ... it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
Paul Ryan
