Quotes about Nature
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
— Herman Melville
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
— Herman Melville
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
— Jack Kerouac
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
— John Adams
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
— Edmund Hillary
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
— Samuel Johnson
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
— Henry David Thoreau
The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?
— Charles Spurgeon
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson