Nature Quotes

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton’s head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

The most important discoveries of the laws, methods and progress of Nature have nearly always sprung from the examination of the smallest objects which she contains.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime – He paints in nature and describes in rime.

Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

Nature-pitiless in a pitiless universe-is certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

For Nature, heartless, witless Nature Will neither know nor care.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.