Nature Quotes
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The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
Dag Hammarskjold
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
Tanit Phoenix
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
Bai Ling
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
G. M. Trevelyan
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So living Nature, not dull Art,Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
John Henry Newman
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
Adam Hamilton
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In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.
Paracelsus
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
Mary Shelley
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.
E. J. Hughes
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Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness.
John Adams
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
Sai Baba
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
Walt Whitman
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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyesAnd gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
John Dryden
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Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly.
Wassily Kandinsky