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Nature Quotes

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Robert Walton in “Letter 4”. Here he is describing Victor Frankenstein.

I’m very anti-religion. I think it’s all just medieval superstition. Religion relies on some desire for a spiritual connection and I do get that from just being out in Yosemite. I get that feeling of grandeur and awe in the world sitting on a cliff at sunset, watching the mountains glow pink, that a lot of people get through religious faith.

– Alex Honnold

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

– John Lubbock

The Use of Life.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world – not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

– John Lubbock

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In.

The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual slow beat always inching its way forward; change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it.

– John O’Donohue

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (Benedictus in Europe).

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

– Albert Camus

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

– Joseph Campbell

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

– Helen Keller

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 off like autumn leaves - John Muir

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 off like autumn leaves.

– John Muir

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars...Everything is simply happy. Look at the flowers. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~ Osho

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars…Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

– Osho

When I’m off the clock, I usually play video games – or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

– Harry Shum, Jr.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

– Henry Rollins

We have lost sight of nature’s role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can’t go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

– Gordon Neufeld

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.

– Hal Boyle

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

– George Gaylord Simpson

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

– Giraldus Cambrensis

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

– Hans Jonas

I know I’m not known as method. By nature I’m not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

– Hugh Jackman

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I’m quite familiar with snakes and think they’re fantastic creatures.

– Harrison Ford

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

– Honore de Balzac

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

– Georges Simenon

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won’t be a single cell left in any of our bodies that’s the same as it is today. This means that any human being who ‘wants’ to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It’s a done deal; that’s what mountain rivers do, and ‘changing’ should be our first nature.

– Guy Finley

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

– Gilbert White

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

– Henry Ward Beecher

Given the international nature of the tanker industry, it is important that global regimes are applied consistently and universally, not local or regional rules that do not recognise the total commercial and operating backdrop.

– Helmut Sohmen

I’m saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin’s time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

– Greg Graffin

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

– H. P. Lovecraft

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

– Guillaume Apollinaire

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

The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ’s atoning sacrifice for humanity’s sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth’s age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth’s age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.

– Hugh Ross

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