Nature Quotes

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, (Nature) does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

The concept of “nature” is itself, so to speak, artificial. Are Ring-Dings elf food? Is Wal-Mart part of the spirit world? For people who live in what we would call “the state of nature” – for Yaguas, Orejons, riberenos, me when I’m fishing in Michigan – nature is nothing in particular. It’s meat locker, wastepaper […]

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.