Quotes about Nature

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

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.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

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!"

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?

One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

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.

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!