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.
Nature Quotes
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Nature is the art of God.
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our […]
We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato […]
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Till o’er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
It is one of the first days of Spring, and I sit once more in the old garden where I hear no faintest echo of the obscene rumbling of London streets which are yet so little away. Here the only movement I am conscious of is that of the trees shooting forth their first sprays […]
