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There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jul. 25, 1924
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
- By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art,
- Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow:
- Thus fishes first to shipping did impart,
- Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
JOHN DRYDEN, Annus Mirabilis
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
GOETHE, Conversations with Goethe
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
Man is Nature's sole mistake.
W.S. GILBERT, Princess Ida
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Revolt of the Angels
- Nature, with equal mind,
- Sees all her sons at play,
- Sees man control the wind,
- The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Empedocles on Etna
- Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
- That's a' the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS, First Epistle to John Lapraik
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Method of Nature
- Nature is but a name for an effect,
- Whose cause is God.
Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
EDMUND BURKE, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
- There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
- There is society, where none intrudes,
- By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
- I love not man the less, but Nature more,
- From these our interviews, in which I steal
- From all I may be, or have been before,
- To mingle with the Universe, and feel
- What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
ERIC HOFFER, Reflections on the Human Condition
All Nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Thumb the Great
Even minor tampering with nature is apt to bring serious consequences, as did the introduction of a single chemical (DDT). Genetic engineering is tampering on a monumental scale, and nature will surely exact a heavy toll for this trespass.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
THOMAS CARLYLE, Latter-Day Pamphlets
The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Citizen of the World
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
- The world's a scene of changes, and to be
- Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.
ABRAHAM COWLEY, Inconstancy
- Nature is a temple where living pillars
- Sometimes emit confused words;
- There man passes through the forests of symbols
- Which observe him with familiar looks.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Correspondences
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