“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.”
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.
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
“The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.”
“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.”
“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”
“Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.”
“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.”
“Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.”