Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Nature

• 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

  Nature, Science, Connections

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

• Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Progress, Development

• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Nature

  "'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.

• By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Nature, Defects

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

• There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Fall, Errors

• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Nature, Reflection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.238, Ravenio Books

• Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Nature, Hate

• Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Book, Important

• The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Artist, Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.242, Ravenio Books

• The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Law, Rose

• Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Details

• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, People, Listening

• Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Men, Errors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.346, Ravenio Books

• Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Giving, Weakness

• Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Order

  "Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret".

• For the nature of women is closely allied to art

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 1, 1808.

• Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Heart, Men

• The unnatural, that too is natural.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Nature, Sexuality

• Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Spring, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature, Degrees

• Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Secret, Midst

• All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Travel, Water

• Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Taken, Science

• The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Experts, Life Is

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