I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice Walker
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul Richter
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da Vinci
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou