Nature Quotes

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Carl Safina

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, "How much is nature worth?" We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

Karl-Henrik Robèrt

We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Gregory Bateson

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.

Michael Fox

Man talks of a battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.

E. F. Schumacher

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

Frederick Soddy

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Charles V

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Joanna Baillie

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Edwin Way Teale