Nature Quotes

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Art does not lie in copying nature. Nature furnishes the material by means of which to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature. The Artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.