Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help.
—May Sarton
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
—Rachel Carson
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
—Max Beerbohm
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
—Paracelsus
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
—Antoine Lavoisier
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
—Woody Allen
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
—Alexander Pope
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
—Robert Delaunay
And here, after all that, is what I have come to believe about beauty: Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is beautiful. Softness and plumpness and roundness are beautiful. It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. The soft tummy of a woman is a miracle of nature. Beauty comes from tenderness. Beauty comes from variety, from specificity, from the fact that no person in the world looks exactly like anyone else. Beauty comes from the tragedy that each person's life is destined to be lost to time.
—Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
—Randy K. Milholland
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
—Michael McClary
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
—Helen Keller
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
—Bjork