Quotes about Nature

If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.

Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.

But there is another and greater distinction, for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As Nature created him for social life, she fitted him for the station she intended. In all cases she made his natural wants greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants, and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society, as naturally as gravitation acts to a center.