Quotes about Nature
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
- CS Lewis
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.
- Origen
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
- Henry David Thoreau
At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.
- Toni Morrison
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
- John Newton
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
- Confucius
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Nature itself is the best physician.
- Hippocrates