All Quotes

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
‐‐ Frederick Soddy

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
‐‐ Marilyn French

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
‐‐ Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.
‐‐ Milton Avery

Nature is neutral.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is never finished.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
‐‐ Simon Winchester

Nature is not human hearted.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
‐‐ Edvard Munch

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
‐‐ James Buchan

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Nature is our chapel.
‐‐ Bjork

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
‐‐ Galileo Galilei

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is the art of God.
‐‐ Dante Alighieri

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
‐‐ Brigham Young

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
‐‐ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
‐‐ Olivia Newton-John

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
‐‐ John Dewey

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is under control but not disturbed.
‐‐ Beatrix of the Netherlands

Nature is wont to hide herself.
‐‐ Heraclitus

Nature knows best.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
‐‐ Ludovico Ariosto

Nature made the fields and man the cities.
‐‐ Marcus Terentius Varro

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.
‐‐ George William Curtis

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

Nature moves towards balance.
‐‐ Joel Salatin

Nature never breaks her own laws.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
‐‐ Archibald Alexander