Quotes about Nature

The paradox in our relation to nature is that the more deeply a culture respects the indifference of nature, the more creatively it will call upon its own spontaneity in response. The more clearly we remind ourselves that we can have no unnatural influence on nature, the more our culture will embody a freedom to embrace surprise and unpredictability.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

Unfortunately, the sinner isn't always the victim. Why should it be? said Mathews. Nature does not work by a scheme of poetical justice. Nor does God, said Perry. We suffer for one another, as, indeed, we must, being all members one of another. Can you separate the child from the father, the man from the brute, or even the man from the vegetable cell...?

A zebra does not change its spots.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.