Quotes about Nature
Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.
- Peter Kreeft
Man's Place in Nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.
- Aristotle
We are all star stuff.
- Carl Sagan
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
- Henry Ward Beecher
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
- James A. Garfield
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
- Seneca
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
- John Keats
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.
- Herman Melville
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
- Henry David Thoreau