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Nature Quotes — 68 Nature Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

Uganda is defended by its insects.

Winston Churchill · ’s Observation, 1908

Nature rarely surrenders one of her magnificent secrets!

Albert Einstein · To Heinrich Zangger, 1 June 1919.

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

Winston Churchill · The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

The Bible · Ecclesiastes 11:7

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

Doug Larson · The Wisconsin columnist on cats.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Wallace Stevens · From the poet's book of aphorisms.

I don’t try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Albert Einstein · To S. Flesch, 16 April 1954.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Albert Einstein · To Max Kariel, 3 August 1953.

We were the aggressors; we it is who have forced the conflict by an unprovoked assault with murderous intent upon a peaceful herbivore; that if there is such a thing as right and wrong between man and beast— and who shall say there is not?—right is plainly on his side.

Winston Churchill · My African Journey (1908)

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau · On his two years in a cabin he built beside Walden Pond, Massachusetts.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

John Muir · Muir on the national parks.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

John Ruskin

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

The Bible · Ecclesiastes 1:7

They say of the breeze off the Atlas that it is too gentle to blow out a candle, but strong enough to snuff out the life of a man.

Winston Churchill · Recorded in Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset, 1955

A man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are, but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature.

Albert Einstein · To Sister Margrit Goehner, February 1955.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.

The Bible · John 3:8

Nature Quotes

Uganda is defended by its insects.

Nature rarely surrenders one of her magnificent secrets!

Nature will not be admired by proxy.

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

I don’t try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

We were the aggressors; we it is who have forced the conflict by an unprovoked assault with murderous intent upon a peaceful herbivore; that if there is such a thing as right and wrong between man and beast— and who shall say there is not?—right is plainly on his side.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

They say of the breeze off the Atlas that it is too gentle to blow out a candle, but strong enough to snuff out the life of a man.

If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

Scenery is fine—but human nature is finer.

The fog comes on little cat feet.

Man is a land animal. Even rabbits are allowed to have warrens, and foxes have earths.

Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her.

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.

The whole world is open with all its treasures. The simplest objects have their beauty.

A man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are, but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth.

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