Nature has been for me,
as long as I can remember,
a source of solace, inspiration,
adventure, and delight,
a home, a teacher, a companion.
-Lorraine Anderson
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment,
because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.
-Mark Coleman
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. -John Burroughs
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -William Shakespeare
It is written in the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. -John Ruskin
Nature is an Aeolian harp,
a musical instrument,
whose tones again are keys
to higher strings in us.
-Novalis
We do not see nature with our eyes,
but with our understandings
and our hearts.
-William Hazlitt
It is in man's heart
that the life of nature's spectacle exists;
to see it, one must feel it.
-Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature is loved by what is best in us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who does not become familiar with nature
through love will never know her.
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Nature never did betray
the heart that loved her.
-William Wordsworth
Never does nature say one thing
and wisdom another.
-Juvenal
The goal of life
is living in agreement with nature.
-Zeno
Nature is our mother.
-Latin Proverb
A person is a part of nature
and nature is a part of a person.
-Deng Ming-Dao
The Earth
its body is my body
-Navajo Song
She [Nature] brings us back to absolute truth
as often as we wander.
-Louis Agassiz
Nature is not governed except by obeying her. -Francis Bacon
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. -Gerald Brenan
Nurture overcomes nature.
-James Howell
Man tames Nature
only that he may at last make her more free
even than he found her.
-Henry David Thoreau
Everything in Nature
contains all the powers of Nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is orderly.
That which appears to be chaotic in nature
is only a more complex kind of order.
-Gary Snyder
Nature is manifold.
The unity absorbs, or meets or reduces.
Nature opens and creates.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never breaks its own rules.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities
is motion.
-Marquis de Sade
What we call nature
is a certain self-regulated motion or change.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is ever at work
building and pulling down, creating and destroying,
keeping everything whirling and flowing,
allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion,
chasing everything in endless song
out of one beautiful form into another.
-John Muir
Motion or change and identity or rest
are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest.
The whole code of her laws may be written on a thumbnail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always tends
to act in the simplest way.
-Daniel Bernoulli
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
-Pierre Schaeffer
See deep enough, and you see musically;
the heart of Nature being everywhere music,
if you can only reach it.
-Thomas Carlyle
Nature's music is never over;
her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
-Mary Webb
Nature is the common, universal language,
understood by all.
-Kathleen Raine
Nature knows no colors,
only colorful transitions.
-Chritian Morgenstern
Nothing takes place all at once...
nature never makes leaps.
-Gottfried Leibnitz
There are no finalities in nature. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Nature] is whole and yet never finished. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature is a mutable cloud,
which is always and never the same.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nature every moment is new;
the past is always swallowed and forgotten;
the coming only is sacred.
Nothing is secure but life, transition and the energizing spirit.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve. -George Santayana
Nature is one and continuous everywhere.
-Henry David Thoreau
In Nature we never see anything isolated,
but everything in connection with something else
which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In all things of nature
there is something of the marvelous.
-Aristotle
All things in nature are equally incredible. -Alfred North Whitehead
There is always an open book for all eyes:
nature.
-John-Jacques Rousseau
The volume of Nature
is the book of knowledge.
-Oliver Goldsmith
In nature's infinite book of secrecy,
a little I can read.
-William Shakespeare
The art of seeing nature
is a thing almost as much to be acquired
as the art of reading the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
-John Constable
The book of Nature...
is written in mathematical characters.
-Galileo Galilei
Come forth into the light of things;
let Nature be your teacher.
-William Wordsworth
Choose only one master - Nature.
-Rembrandt
Earth and sky, woods and field,
lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,
are excellent schoolmasters,
and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
-John Lubbock
Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.
-Albert Einstein
Observe and copy nature.
-Viktor Schauberger
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature.
It will never fail you.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me a spark of Nature's fire
That's the learning I desire.
-Robert Burns
Nature is not only that
that is visible to the eye.
It also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
-Edvard Munch
Meanings, moods,
the whole scale of our innner experience,
finds in nature the 'correspondences'
through which we may know our boundless selves.
-Kathleen Raine
Nature is man's teacher.
She unfolds her treasures to his search,
unseals his eye, illumines his mind, and purifies his heart.
-Alfred B. Street
Nature is the universal teacher.
Whatever we cannot learn
from the external appearance of Nature,
we can learn from her Spirit.
Both are one.
-Paracelsus
The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.
You should never trifle with Nature.
-Louis Agassiz
Nature is full of genius,
full of the divinity.
-Henry David Thoreau
Nature is the living visible garment of God. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
