Nature Quotes

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above.
Julia Fletcher Carney 1823

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.

Art is the perfection of nature.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
Aristotle 384BC

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
John J. Ingalls

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Robert G Ingersoll 1833

Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.
Catherine Ponder

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens 1812

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Leave the world a little better than you found it.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H.G. Wells 1866

I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived life of their parents.
Carl Jung 1875

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Take time to think.. it is the source of power. Take time to play.. it is the secret of prepetual youth. Take time to readÖ it is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to pray.. it is the greatest power on earth. Take time to laughÖ it is the music of the soul. Take time to giveÖ it is too short a day to be selfish.
Anon xx

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb xxxx

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

We are partakers of a common nature, and the same causes that contribute to the benefit of one contribute to the benefit of another.
William Godwin

We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? What does Nature hold dearer, or more proper to herself? Could you have a hot bath unless the firewood underwent some change.. is it possible for any useful thing to be achieved without change? Do you not see, then, that change in yourself is of the same order, and no less necessary to Nature?
Marcus Aurelius 121

Nature is my friend. Life is my teacher of philosophy. History is my guide.
Pirapakaran

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

Nature does nothing uselessly.







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