Quotes and Sayings About Nature
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Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.
-- A. E. Douglass -
Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
-- Abraham Cowley -
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
-- Adam Sedgwick -
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
-- Adam Smith -
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.
-- Adolf Bastian -
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
-- Alan Kay -
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
-- Alan Watts -
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-- Albert Camus -
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
-- Albert Camus -
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
-- Albert Einstein -
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-- Albert Einstein -
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
-- Albert Einstein -
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
-- Albrecht Durer -
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
-- Aldo Leopold
