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Nature

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

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. - E. H. Chapin

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. - Alexander Pope

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh. - Jennette Lee

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world – not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. - John Lubbock

Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. - Victor Scheffer

Apprentice yourself to nature. Not a day will pass without her opening a new and wondrous world of experience to learn from and enjoy. - Richard W. Langer 

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. - Lord Bryon

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. - Henry Brooks Adams

Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher. - William Wordsworth  

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants. - Alan Lightman

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. - George Santayana

Everything we eat and use comes from this Earth, and so does the water that we drink or wash in or use for many other purposes. All these things that Nature provides enable us to survive and be happy and peaceful. Nature gives and gives, all the time. - Unknown

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature. - Chuang Tzu

How Nature delights and amuses us by varying even the character of insects: the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of the drone, the volatility of the butterfly, the slyness of the bug. - Sydney Smith

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! - Emily Dickinson

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C. Clarke

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. - Leonardo Davinci

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. - John Burroughs

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us a right. - Henry David Thoreau

If not ignored, nature will cultivate in the gardener a sense of well-being and peace. The gardener may find deeper meaning in life by paying attention to the parables of the garden. Nature teaches quiet lessons to the gardener who chooses to live within the paradigm of the garden. - Norman H. Hansen

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent Van Gogh

In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. - Aristotle

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are consequences. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Unknown

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. - John Milton

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. - Anatole France

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. - Oscar Wilde

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld

Lay aside all conceit. Learn to read the book of nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which has once in a while broad ended out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search. - Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. - Michel De Montaigne

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jimmy Carter

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. - Eckhart Tolle

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein

Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. - Standing Bear

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate. - Kobo Abe

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. - Radhanath Swami

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows. - E. H. Chapin

Nature ... is uniform. There is no sign of accident or caprice, or the arbitrary, fitful interference of a superior power, but the things of nature proceed onward from age to age with a solemn, majestic movement – an august procession that strikes the contemplative beholder with awe, and expands and lifts his soul with indescribable emotions of sublimity and grandeur. - Horace Mann

Nature abhors a vacuum. - Baruch Spinoza

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. - Charles Dickens

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. - Goethe

Nature has a wonderful power of putting things right, if allowed free play. - James Platt

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. - Lorraine Anderson

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries. - Unknown

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. - Eric Hoffer

Nature has no remorse. - Edward Counsel

Nature has painted for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. - Unknown

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies. - George Eliot

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. - Quintilian

Nature is a killer.. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. - Jeff Melvoin

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. - Francis Bacon

Nature is a library of divine thoughts to the spiritualized mind. - Reuben Thomas

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. - Robert Frost

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. - Blaise Pascal

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite. - Joseph Addison

Nature is nobody's ally. - Herman Melville

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. - Gary Snyder

Nature is not human hearted. - Lao Tzu

Nature is not mute, it is Man that is deaf. - Terence McKenna

Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. - Wendell Berry

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

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there’s no annihilation – the essence remains. - Thomas Binney

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. - Isaac Newton

Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall. - Alan Lightman

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 the armoury of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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 knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Mark Twain

Nature looks with an equal smile on all. - Edward Counsel

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage. - Johann Von Goethe

Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust. - E. H. Chapin

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. - Vandana Shiva

Nature talks in symbols; he who lacks imagination cannot understand her. - Abraham Miller

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. - John Burroughs

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. - Luigi Pirandello

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. - Richard Tapestry

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. - Anatole France

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. - Michel Foucault

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Henry Adams

Renew your inner energy and refresh your soul by simply taking a few moments each day to reflect upon the beauty and perfection of Nature’s creation. - Unknown

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

Search out the wisdom of Nature, there is depth in all her doings. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake. - Rachel Carson

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D. H. Lawrence

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature, – were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. - Henry Wadsworth Longefellow

The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can lead them further to a knowledge of the author of all laws. - John Joseph Lynch

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. - Blaise Pascal

The student of nature is like one who goes with a candle into some immense cavern. Presently a little circle becomes clear, the shadows vanish before him, and undefined forms grow distinct. He thinks he is near the end, when, lo! what seemed a solid boundary of rock dissolves and floats away into a depth of darkness, the path opens into an immense void, new shapes of mystery start out, and he learns this much that he did not know before, that instead of being near the end he is only upon the threshold. - E. H. Chapin

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge. - Oliver Goldsmith

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works. - Albert Einstein

There is constant life in [Nature], motion and development; and yet she remains where she was. She is eternally changing, nor for a moment does she stand still. Of rest she knows nothing, and to all stagnation she has affixed her curse. She is steadfast; her step is measured, her exceptions rare, her laws immutable. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer. - Calvin Coolidge

There is something of the marvellous in all things of nature. - Aristotle

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. - Rachel Carson

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. - Sir Isaac Newton

Use Nature well and she will recompense thee well. - Edward Counsel

We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We cannot command nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. - William Hazlett

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. - Unknown

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining. - Hildegard Von Bingen

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. - William Rotsler

You don’t have to be a scientist to learn from Nature’s marvellous creation; you only need to stop long enough to observe and let Nature reveal it’s wonders to you. - Unknown

You only need to stop long enough to observe and let Nature reveal it’s wonders to you. - Unknown

Your deepest roots are in nature.  No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation. - Charles Cook