Nature Quotes

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

They say there is a tune which is forbidden to be played in the European armies because it makes the Swiss desert, since it reminds them so forcibly of their hills and home. I have heard many Swiss tunes played in college. Balancing between getting and not getting a hard lesson, a breath of fragrant […]

I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, a place where woman never smiled or wept – there to abide with my creator, God, and sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling, and untroubled where I lie, the grass below – above, the vaulted sky.

Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing… The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark than a moral.

Study nature, not books.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.