Top 490 Nature Quotes

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
Giant oak trees… have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
D. H. Lawrence
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas a Kempis
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran Lebowitz
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings.
William Cullen Bryant
I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.
Monica Bellucci
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature.
Claude Debussy
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou
This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.
Richard Jefferies
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circ

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid
I’m not a winner. My nature is not the nature of a winner.
Peter Handke
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‘Not Me,’ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‘Nature.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
John James Audubon
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
George Santayana
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Kuang
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
Marco Pierre White
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.
Princess Nokia
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
Steven Pinker
That’s what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.
Wim Hof
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
Jose Rizal
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
Isaac Newton
For a long time, men weren’t respecting women. They weren’t understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
Skepta
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
Rudolf Steiner
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
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Rebecca Harding Davis
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
Scott Cook
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
Edgar Allan Poe
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Robert Fulghum
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
Pierre Schaeffer
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
Diogenes
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.
Brad Pitt
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the game.
Gianfranco Zola
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Napoleon Hill
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man’s inner nature.
Ron Perlman
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
Nature’s my muse and it’s been my passion.
Frans Lanting
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Antoni Gaudi
Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.
Tom Frieden
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Marilyn French
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Sai Baba
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
Alvar Aalto