Nature Quotes - Page 27

• If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Knowing, Science Physics

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library

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• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, God, Soul

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

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• Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Food

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Vanity

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Happiness, Shows

  William Cowper, John MACDIARMID (Editor of the “Dumfries and Galloway Courier.”.) (1819). “Poems ... To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author; also, critical remarks on his poems, written expressly for this work. By John M'Diarmid. Second edition, revised and extended”, p.71

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• I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

  Pete Hamill

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

  William Blake

  Sports, Determination, Greatness

  Note-Book (1807 - 1809)

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• My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Photography, Travel

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Stars, Breathing

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Believe, Animal

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

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• What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

  Mollie Beattie

  Country, Environmental, Wilderness

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• Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Age, Missiles

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• Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.

  James Van Praagh

  Trust, Learning, Practice

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Dec 27, 2014

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• I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

  Norman MacCaig

  Love Is, Hills, Gregarious

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• To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

  Barry Lopez

  Hands, Rivers, Water

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• The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

  Peter Lik

  Inspirational, Photography, Passion

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• We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Mean, Needs

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library

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• The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon
  the beauty and the wonder of the world.

  John Burroughs

  Mind, World, Wonder

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Science, Suffering

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• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Adventure, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

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• You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

  Galen Rowell

  Inspirational, Photography, Sunset

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• The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

  Tom Regan

  Life, Animal, Use

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• Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

  Hans Jonas

  Life, Men, People

  Hans Jonas, Lawrence Vogel (1996). “Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good After Auschwitz”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

  Alistair Cooke

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Thinking, Differences, People

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