Quotes about Nature

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.