Nature Quotes

Thou canst not stir a flower, without troubling of a star.

Men argue, nature acts.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, To the silent wilderness.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Nature has always had more power than education.

A brave man likes the feel of nature on his face, Yeah and a wise man has enough sense to get in out of the rain

I saw Fair Haven Pond with its island, and meadow between the island and the shore, and a strip of perfectly still and smooth water in the lee of the island, and two hawks, fish hawks perhaps, sailing over it. I did not see how it could be improved. Yet I do not see what […]

Nature is ruthless when it comes to matching the quantity of life in any given place to the quantity of nourishment available.

It is a profound truth that nature does not know best; that genetical evolution is a tale of waste, makeshift, compromise, and blunder.

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation “alter” nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, […]