"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."
Read quote
19 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 24 of 183)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables."
Read quote
18 likes
"There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer."
Read quote
18 likes
"There is the sky, which is all men's together."
Read quote
18 likes
"Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences."
Read quote
18 likes
"Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen."
Read quote
18 likes
"I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future."
Read quote
18 likes
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Read quote
18 likes
"Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature."
Read quote
18 likes
"Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure"
Read quote
18 likes
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
Read quote
18 likes
"Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator."
Read quote
18 likes
"Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth."
Read quote
18 likes
"If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development."
Read quote
18 likes
"The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth."
Read quote
18 likes
"Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano."
Read quote
18 likes
"Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job."
Read quote
18 likes
"Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!"
Read quote
18 likes
"My profession is to always find God in nature."
Read quote
18 likes
"Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging."
Read quote
18 likes