“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
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.
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”
“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
“It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.”
“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
“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.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
“For greed all nature is too little.”
“Nature hates calculators.”
“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”
“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.”
“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”