Quotes about Nature

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

If only we could eat our sunsets, I say, we would all be full.