7,238 Quotes About Nature

Nature is the Creator, I just do the fine tuning

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.

We are separate from nature or life only in our minds.

Dying Speech of an Old PhilosopherI strove with none, for none was worth my strife.Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The sea tells you everything will be fine. The mountains tell you it doesn’t matter anyway.

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.