Quotes about Nature
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
— Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
— Seneca
What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.
— Seneca
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"
— Frank Herbert
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?
— Henry David Thoreau
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
— JM Coetzee
I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.
— Jane Goodall
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
— John Milton
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
— John Milton
Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder
— John F. Kennedy
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
To my way of thinking, no one can live in the grandest cathedral on earth, the Rocky Mountains, and not know that there's someone bigger than man in charge of the world.
— Mary Connealy