Quotes about Nature
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
- Thomas Jefferson
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
- George Eliot
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
- Epictetus
I sing the body electric.
- Walt Whitman
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
- John Keats
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
- Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
- Vincent Van Gogh
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
- Walt Whitman
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
- Oscar Wilde