Quotes about Nature

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

Love cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

One of the best springs of generous and worthy actions, is having generous and worthy thoughts of ourselves: whoever has a mean opinion of the dignity of his nature will act in no higher a rank than he has allotted himself in his own estimation.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.