Top 100 Nature S Quotes
#2. The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
Matthew Arnold
#3. Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.
Michael Oakeshott
#5. Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
Lord Byron
#6. I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Annie Leibovitz
#7. In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.
Andy Miller
#8. This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
John Muir
#9. ...nature is so immoral, vulgar, and downright wicked we can't possibly use nature's behaviors to set rules for ourselves.
Dan Riskin
#10. Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth,
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.
William C. Bryant
#11. Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
John Wilmot
#12. Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
John Quincy Adams
#13. The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
John Dryden
#14. But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
Abraham Cowley
#15. If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
Catherine Ponder
#16. Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.
Murray Gell-Mann
#17. From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
James Russell Lowell
#19. Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
Heinrich Heine
#20. Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal... Daily new, always strange, ever full of change, it is Nature's wonder park. It is the most human and the most popular of all parks. -Yellowstone Park for Your Vacation (circa 1920s)
Susan Rugh
#21. Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.
Jeanette Winterson
#24. Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#27. 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#28. Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.
James Russell Lowell
#29. A man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.
Martha Ostenso
#30. Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.
Camille Paglia
#31. Death is a gift, so long as it is nature's hand.
Douglas Clegg
#32. Alpha sets the scale of nature
the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code.
Frank Close
#33. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
John Muir
#34. Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature
this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.
Ivan Turgenev
#35. What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?
Samuel Rutherford
#36. The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.
Criss Jami
#37. We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
#38. I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#39. Principles that drive equilibrium in nature's design also power human design.
Maggie Macnab
#40. Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.
Alec Baldwin
#41. A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.
Pamela Crane
#42. We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.
Adi Godrej
#43. The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders..
Izaak Walton
#44. Children are nature's flower and our future. They are the future fathers and mothers. They are our mind's adventure in the future.
Debasish Mridha
#46. This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?
Max Planck
#47. To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part.
William Carlos Williams
#48. True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#50. Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.
Hugh Hammond Bennett
#51. Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
Vandana Shiva
#52. The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
Criss Jami
#53. Discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature's hands. That's why there is restlessness. That is why these are the pains of dependency [association]. There are such times man has to face that it becomes difficult for him to pass even one hour.
Dada Bhagwan
#54. It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures ...
Lee Wulff
#55. Surgery is nature's way of telling us to slow down.
Dan John
#57. This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan - making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.
Rachel Cohn
#58. The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.
Preston Cloud
#59. When we were together, it had been like one of nature's true and rare beauties; like an impossible beam of sunlight piercing through black clouds, bathing the patch of earth before you in gold.
Amy Plum
#60. I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
Arthur Conan Doyle
#61. Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
Nigel Hamilton
#62. Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Alexander Pope
#63. And in that hour,
The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd
To such gigantic and enormous growth,
Were sown in human nature's fruitful soil.
Hence date the persecution and the pain
That man inflicts on all inferior kinds,
Regardless of their plaints.
William Cowper
#64. Close your eyes. You might try saying ... something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!
Dale Carnegie
#65. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.
John Keats
#66. Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
Brian Greene
#67. No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand
for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
Ivan Turgenev
#68. A smile is nature's freeway: it has lanes, and you can go any speed you like, except you can't go back
James M. Cain
#69. Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
Lord Byron
#70. He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
Laozi
#71. Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus
#73. Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy
your mathematics is.
Leslie Lamport
#74. Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Arthur Keith
#75. If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
Arthur C. Clarke
#76. One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
Marquis De Sade
#77. The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.
Edwin Way Teale
#78. Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden ... The whole world is a garden.
Costa Georgiadis
#79. Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards.
William Shakespeare
#80. Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.
Friedrich Schiller
#81. We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
Daniel Suarez
#82. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.
Cus D'Amato
#83. Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep;
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
#85. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope
#86. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
Helen Keller
#87. How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.
Estwick Evans
#88. Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer
#89. It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#90. Our love was a river, always changing under the mercy of nature's elements, but we continued to flow, even when we trickled.
Shannon A. Thompson
#91. A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
Pat Conroy
#92. Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#93. Pain is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we've got the message.
Martin Amis
#94. You're gorgeous, Gabriel. You always were, you know."
"Nature's cruelty - the fallen angel retains his beauty. But I'm ugly on the inside.
Sylvain Reynard
#95. Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place
Hal Lancaster
#96. Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
Stanley B. Prusiner
#97. Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
Dan Brown
#98. For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
Liam Neeson
#99. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.
Anasazi Foundation
#100. Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.
Philip Yancey
