Quotes about Nature

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures,Above all Brother SunWho brings us the day and lends us his light.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

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.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.

What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?

T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven.

The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.