Sayings about Nature
Nature hangs out her sign everywhere. ~ German Proverbs
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak. ~ Greek Proverbs
Nature is our mother. ~ Latin Proverbs
Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat. ~ Irish Proverbs
Nature is better than a middling doctor. ~ Chinese Proverb
A woman gets thirty percent of her beauty from nature and seventy percent from makeup. ~ Chinese Proverb
Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never. ~ Chinese Proverb
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~ Chinese Proverb
Where Nature stops folly begins. ~ German Proverb
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. ~ German Proverb
Nature surpasses nurture. ~ Traditional Proverb
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs
Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs
Nature is new every morning. ~ Traditional Proverb
A father is a banker provided by nature. ~ French Proverb
Quotations about Nature
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. ~ Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~ Francis Bacon
Nature is not human hearted. ~ Lao-Tzu
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. ~ Anatole France
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out. ~ Steven Weinberg
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~ Author Unknown
All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~ Alfred Billings Street
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. ~ Jerome K. Jerome
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ~ John Ruskin
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. ~ John Burroughs
Art is man’s nature: Nature is God’s art. ~ Philip James Bailey
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. ~ Gerard De Nerval
Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. ~ William Wordsworth
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ~ Thornton Wilder
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~ George Washington Carver
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way. ~ Aristotle Quotes
Nature is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. ~ Charles Baudelaire
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another. ~ Edmund Burke
Happiness flutters in the air whilst we rest among the breaths of nature. ~ Kelly Sheaffer
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. ~ Pablo Picasso Quotes
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. ~ Julius Caesar
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ~ John Burroughs
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Nature, in her blind search for life, has filled every possible cranny of the earth with some sort of fantastic creature. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~ Eleonora Duse
Nature is my medicine. ~ Sara Moss-Wolfe
How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~ Emily Dickinson
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein Quotes
Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. ~ Bernoulli
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. ~ Standing Bear
Man is Nature’s sole mistake. ~ W.S. Gilbert
Men argue, nature acts. ~ Voltaire Quotes
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. ~ Author Unknown
All art is an imitation of nature. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person’s religion. ~ Francis Herbert Hedge
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature surpasses nurture. ~ Author Unknown
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~ Anatole France
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. ~ Eric Hoffer
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. ~ William Wordsworth
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
The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
A man is related to all nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. ~ William Hazlitt
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is commanded by obeying her. ~ Francis Bacon
I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God. ~ Alan Hovhaness
All Nature wears one universal grin. ~ Henry Fielding
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story. ~ Linda Hogan
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. ~ Robert Collier
Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~ Winston Churchill Quotes
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare
Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~ Juvenal, Satires
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. ~ Margaret Witter Fuller
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. ~ William Cowper
Nature does nothing uselessly. ~ Aristotle Quotes
Nature is the art of God. ~ Thomas Browne
Nature admits no lie. ~ Thomas Carlyle