1. Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. - Elizabeth Bowen
2. All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures. - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
3. Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. - Marilyn French
4. All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. - Thomas Browne
5. I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. - Ella Maillart
6. Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. - David Gerrold
7. I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. - Antoine Lavoisier
8. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. - Antoine Lavoisier
9. Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. - Izaak Walton
10. Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. - Steven Weinberg
11. To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. - Max Beerbohm
12. When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. - James Whitcomb Riley
13. We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. - Clarence Day
14. Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. - John Webster
15. Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. - Mary Webb
16. There is no forgiveness in nature. - Ugo Betti
17. In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. - John Fowles
18. It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. - P. D. James
19. For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. - Pam Brown
20. There's no night without stars. - Andre Norton
21. Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. - Augustus Hare
22. Sound is the vocabulary of nature. - Pierre Schaeffer
23. There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. - Edouard Manet
24. There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Wilson Lynd
25. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nerval
26. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. - Henri Rousseau
27. I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. - Alan Hovhaness
28. In nature there are few sharp lines. - A. R. Ammons
29. I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. - Jilly Cooper
30. Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. - Gilbert White
31. Autumn's the mellow time. - William Allingham
32. Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. - Gerard Manley Hopkins
33. Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? - James Montgomery
34. The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. - Henry Morton Stanley
35. Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. - Christopher Heyerdahl
36. Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. - Freya Stark
37. I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. - Thomas Hood
38. This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness. - Richard Jefferies
39. Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. - Geraldo Rivera
40. We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. - Walter Gilbert
41. Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing. - Nicola Formichetti
42. The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. - Ruth Bernhard
43. The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. - Jean Ingelow
44. The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. - Pamela Hansford Johnson
45. A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. - Jim Woodring
46. I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. - Edward Steichen
47. The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. - Elias Hicks
48. Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. - Bryan Procter
49. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. - Rebecca Harding Davis
50. Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. - Chen Shui-bian
51. The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable. - Ricky Skaggs
52. The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man. - Joseph Franklin Rutherford
53. I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. - Georg Trakl
54. My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. - John McGraw
55. Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way. - Matthew Green
56. Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself. - Paul Muni
57. Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy. - Roger Tory Peterson
58. I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them. - Roger Tory Peterson
59. The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. - Burl Ives
60. What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else. - Hal Boyle
61. People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. - Henry Cantwell Wallace
62. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Elizabeth Appell
63. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius
64. The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. - Thomas Hobbes
65. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
66. There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. - Henry David Thoreau
67. If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - Henry David Thoreau
68. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir
69. All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. - Marie Curie
70. Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. - Abraham Lincoln
71. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. - Friedrich Nietzsche
73. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. - Mother Teresa
74. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir
75. Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. - Saint Augustine
76. The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. - Maria Montessori
77. No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. - Denis Diderot
78. Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. - Friedrich Nietzsche
79. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
80. In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
81. I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. - Walt Disney
82. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. - Walt Whitman
83. I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness. - John Muir
84. Nature never breaks her own laws. - Leonardo da Vinci
85. To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another. - Leonardo da Vinci
86. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. - Paulo Coelho
87. Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education! - Maria Montessori
88. Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. - Maria Montessori
89. Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. - Arthur Schopenhauer
90. By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. - Thomas Aquinas
91. It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. - Edmund Burke
92. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. - Blaise Pascal
93. You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. - Alexander the Great
94. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. - Robert Baden-Powell
95. Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. - Robert Baden-Powell
96. Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
97. The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away. - Galileo Galilei
98. Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. - Arthur Conan Doyle
99. Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. - Orson Welles
100. There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton
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