Nature Quotes

By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The man who feels most exquisitely the joy of contact with what is perfect in art and nature is the man who from the width and power of his thought hides the greatest number of Satanic or barbarous sympathies. His opposite is the narrow churchman or reformer who knows no ecstasy and is shocked chiefly […]

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Nature is always behind the age.

The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.

To wander as I did for years though the dawn of night with every nerve stiff and strained with expectation gives one a singular acquaintance with the essences of the world. The obscure noises of the owls and rabbits, the heavy scent of the hemlock and the flowers of the elder… gave me a passionate […]

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves.