Nature Quotes - Page 20

• Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Book, Men

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.88

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• All nature is but art unknown to thee.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Literature, Erring

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Believe, Simple

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.133, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sleep, Rocks, Earth

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• For 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

  Good Morning, Beauty, Time

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

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• Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Children, Home

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218

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• I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

  Dr. Seuss

  Tree, Tongue, Speak

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  H. G. Wells

  Change, Natural, Ability To Adapt

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.54, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Flower, Ignorance

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Weed, Flower

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• "One impulse from a vernal wood

  William Wordsworth

  Tree, Woods, Forests

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

  Oscar Wilde

  Errors, Growth, Quality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1062, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Jobs

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3646, e-artnow

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• My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Human Nature, Best Nature

  Sonnet 111

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• Nature is not human hearted.

  Laozi

  Enlightening, Hearted, Human Heart

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• No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

  Aristotle

  Faults, Results, Defects

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Angel, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 1, l. 237 (1733)

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• There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Understanding, Needs

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64)

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• Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Rich

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.

  Rachel Carson

  Contentment, Earth, Vexation

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Broken, World, Imperfect

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Fighting, Emotional, Winning

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Stars, Silence, Needs

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Animal, Men, Ideas

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• 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, Hate, May

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