Quotes about Nature
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
— George Eliot
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
— Cicero
I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?
— Gordon Hinckley
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
— CS Lewis
...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.
— Paulo Coelho
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
— Khalil Gibran
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it never rained, nothing would grow.
— Oprah Winfrey
There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.
— Roy Bennett
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.
— Jane Goodall
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
— Jane Goodall