"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
Read quote
25 likes
Nature quotes
Nature
3.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Nature
Browse quotes that often appear alongside nature — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Nature quotes (page 20 of 183)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
Read quote
25 likes
"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."
Read quote
25 likes
"I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it."
Read quote
25 likes
"The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own."
Read quote
25 likes
"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
Read quote
25 likes
"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
Read quote
24 likes
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
Read quote
24 likes
"...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants."
Read quote
24 likes
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
Read quote
24 likes
"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
Read quote
24 likes
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
Read quote
24 likes
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
Read quote
24 likes
"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."
Read quote
24 likes
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
Read quote
24 likes
"How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track."
Read quote
24 likes
"The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof."
Read quote
23 likes
"In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar."
Read quote
23 likes
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
Read quote
23 likes
"The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature."
Read quote
23 likes