Quotes about Nature

When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise,—and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults. In

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St. Petersburgh, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime. When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and, sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote "Not transferable," and "Good for this trip only," on these garments of the soul.