Top Nature Quotes

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature...

A certain bygone philosophy-which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child-used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training...

Nature Definition

(n.) The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

(n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence.

(n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.

(n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience.

(n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being.

(n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality.

(n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.

(n.) Natural affection or reverence.

(n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character.

(v. t.) To endow with natural qualities.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too...

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

White clouds, blue sky.

Let’s only care about the place where we are.There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.If there’s someone beyond the curve in the road,Let them worry about what’s past the curve in the...

What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us...

With all colors combined the world shines

No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How often already you've had to be told,Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.Dread fifty above m...

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Up to a decade or two ago, the system production-nature (man's productive-exploitative relationship with nature and its resources) was perceived as a constant, whereas everybody was busy imagining dif...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.