“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
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.
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.”
“Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.”
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.”
“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”
“To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”