“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Nature does not need us, but we desperately need it. These quotes celebrate the natural world — forests, oceans, mountains, seasons — and the perspective that comes from spending time in places where human concerns feel very small.
“I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”
“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”
“Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”
“Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.”
“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.”
“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
“You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”
“In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.”
“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”
“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
“Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.”