Nature Quotes

Nature it seems is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.'” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature” – but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper […]

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Man is demolishing nature… We are killing things that keep us alive.

The positive ideal that is proposed is Nature. That is, wild nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control.

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

Two roads diverged in a woods, – and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.