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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!
Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.
I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.