Nature Quotes

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime – He paints in nature and describes in rime.

Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

Nature-pitiless in a pitiless universe-is certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

For Nature, heartless, witless Nature Will neither know nor care.

Even the nature-worship which Pagans have felt, even the nature-love which Pantheists have felt, ultimately depends as much on some implied purpose and positive good in things, as does the direct thanksgiving which Christians have felt. Indeed Nature is at best merely a female name we give to Providence when we are not treating it […]

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.