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Quotations About Nature

Related: Flowers, Weather, Animals

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.
E.B. Duffey
What Women Should Know, 1873


The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana
The Life of Reason


Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
Karen Savage and Patricia Adams
The Good Stepmother


The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
The Complete Works of Aristotle


Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Satires


We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Unknown


For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
Edwin Way Teale


There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche


How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs


Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley


In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir


Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
William R. Inge


Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.
Cecilia Bartoli


In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne


A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
Unknown


Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher