Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Nature

• 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

  Nature, Science, Connections

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

• Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Progress, Development

• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Nature

  "'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.

• By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Nature, Defects

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

• There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Fall, Errors

• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Nature, Reflection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.238, Ravenio Books

• Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Nature, Hate

• Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Book, Important

• The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Artist, Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.242, Ravenio Books

• The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Law, Rose

• Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Details

• Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Men, Errors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.346, Ravenio Books

• Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Giving, Weakness

• Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Order

  "Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret".

• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, People, Listening

• For the nature of women is closely allied to art

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 1, 1808.

• Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Heart, Men

• The unnatural, that too is natural.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Nature, Sexuality

• To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Names, Form

• Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Accomplish, Leap

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

• Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Fall, Arms

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3594, Delphi Classics

• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Nature, Men

• Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Tired, Entering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Spring, Rain

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.209

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