Nature Quotes - Page 5

• To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mean, Science, Rivers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.75, Vintage

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• The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

  Charles Kingsley

  Change, Travel, Rain

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  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

  God, Stars, Flower

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Rich with the spoils of nature.

  Thomas Browne

  Rich, Spoil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.19

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• In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Tree, Woods

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Creativity, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Sea, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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

  William Hazlitt

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.249

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Laughter, Knowledge

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• Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

  Charlie Cook

  Roots, Where You Live, Matter

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• Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

  Alan Kay

  Flower, Should Have, Worry

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• An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Get Well Soon, Famous Inspirational

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Natural Environment, Finished

  "De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 34), 45 BC.

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• Choose only one master - Nature.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Choices, Painting

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspiring, Simplicity, Ifs

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

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• Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.

  Patch Adams

  Stress, Moving, Blood

  Patch Adams, M.D. (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.93, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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  Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

  Michael Faraday

  Truth, Science, Law

  Michael Faraday (2003). “Experimental Researches In Chemistry And Physics”, p.9, CRC Press

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

  John Burroughs

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fall

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• To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Faith, Believe, Garden

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• The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

  David R. Brower

  Wild Places, Ends

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• Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

  George Eliot

  Sunshine, Labor, Humans

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

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• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Autumn, Giving, Environment

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Dog, Animal

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.277, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Garden

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