Nature Quotes

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

Body, Water, Ocean

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Universe, Lesson

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen

Perfect, Fine, Sit

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Adapt, Imperative, Perish

I am two with nature.
Woody Allen

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison

Trying, Perfect, Water

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Soul, Stars, Flowers

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams

Broken, Mountains, Rocks

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Lost, Earth

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

Earth, Crew, Spaceship

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
Robert Byrne

Saying, Winter, Yours

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Beauty, True, Shield

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

Poetry, Dead, Earth

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige

Sun, Pray, Rains

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

Time, Future, Her

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov

Time, Forward, May

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson

Strange, Knock, Intrude

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Hard, Trying, Succeed

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson

Alone, Few, Takes

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana

Love, Mind, Spring

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

Commanded, Obeyed

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

Power, Summer, Suffer

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne

Human, May, Brave

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

Cannot, Her, Except

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