Nature Quotes

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.

“In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.”

Xun Zi

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“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”

Marquis de Sade

“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”

Arthur C. Clarke

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

Al Gore

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

Jane Austen

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

Helen Keller

“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”

Paul Cezanne

“The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.”

Joni Mitchell

“We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.”

Benjamin Carson

“There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.”

Ayelet Waldman

“There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.”

Stephen Hawking

“One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.”

Thor Heyerdahl

“There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.”

Clint Eastwood

“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

E. M. Forster

“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”

Henry Ward Beecher

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