Top 1000 Nature Quotes & Sayings

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

For greed all nature is too little.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

Study nature, not books.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Nature abhors annihilation.

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Sunlight is painting.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Nature is not human hearted.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

I don't think anyone really gets used to being recognized around the world. It kind of feels like a videogame at times, especially with paparazzi and people following you and things of that nature. But it's part of who I am now.

I'm a really natural person; I love nature.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.