Nature Quotes - Page 11

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cheating, Giving Up, Struggle

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.113, Penguin

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• After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Selfish, Years, White

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Struggle, Acceptance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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• I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

  Miriam Makeba

  Crush, Racism, Looks

  "In praise of ... Miriam Makeba", www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Earth Day, Environmental

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• 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

  Mother, Years, Forgiving

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

  Marquis de Sade

  Change, Beautiful, Mean

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• Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Perfect, Inspire

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• Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Scary, Reserves

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

  William Wordsworth

  World, Littles, Too Much

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Motherhood, Artist, Grandchildren

  "Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture". Book edited by Patrick J. Meehan, 1987.

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• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

  Thomas Hardy

  Love, Light, Earth

  Time's Laughing Stocks (1909) "Let me Enjoy"

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• An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

  Max Planck

  Science, Answers, Measurement

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Gardening, Church

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

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• One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Optimism, Climbing Trees, Birch Trees

  "Birches" l. 59 (1916)

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• Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

  George Santayana

  Summer, Fate, Garden

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

  Arthur Eddington

  Light, Intellectual, Purpose

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• Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

  Aberjhani

  Fear, Humanity, World

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• ...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

  Mary Oliver

  Lonely, Imagination, Wild Geese

  Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

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• There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

  John Steinbeck

  Garden, Earth, Damp

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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

  Helen Keller

  Garden, Luxury, Earth

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• If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

  Alex Trebek

  Mother, Fear, Awe

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• God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Men, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”

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