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Nature surpasses nurture.
-Proverb
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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
-Proverb
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I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine.
-Edward Abbey
Hayduke Lives
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
-Joseph Addison
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I am at two with nature.
-Woody Allen
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
-Lorraine Anderson
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
-Maya Angelou
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The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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All men by nature desire to know.
-Aristotle
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
-Aristotle
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
-Jane Austen
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
-Francis Bacon
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Nature is commanded by obeying her.
-Francis Bacon
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This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
-Francis Bacon
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Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
-Philip James Bailey
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
-Hosea Ballou
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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
-Bruce Barton
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
-Bernoulli
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I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
-Bhagavad Gita
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
-William Blake
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
-Hal Borland
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
-Jacob Bronowski
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
-Sir Thomas Browne
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To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.
-William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
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Books about Nature
