Nature Quotes

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

People who brandish naturalistic principles at us are usually up to mischief.

Man must go back to nature for information.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.

Nature abhors a moron.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself – my disgust at her barbarity – clumsiness – darkness – bitter mockery of herself – is the most desolating.

Nature will force her way, and if you try to stifle her by drowning, she comes up, not the fairest part of her uppermost.

It is too late to go back to the order of nature or the truth in history.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing; and I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.