Nature Quotes

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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.

People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream, what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing in the fields has power to move you, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive...

There is a 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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling…

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.

I'll tell you how the sun rose—
A ribbon at a time.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the beauteous land.