Nature Quotes

You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

It is a faith (not always justified) of theoretical physics that if man proposes what is sufficiently elegant, nature, pleased and flattered, will say yes.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions.

The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages – leaf after leaf, never returning one.

I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau – If birds confabulate or no.

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

The noblest employment of the mind of man is the study of the works of his creator. To him whom the science of Nature delights, every object brings a proof of his God; and everything that proves this gives cause for adoration.