To everyone's surprise, wildlife abounds in the deserted environs of the doomed [Chernobyl] nuclear plant. Elk, wild pigs, wolves, and rabbits all seem to be flourishing. These animals have somehow learned to cope with the high levels of radiation. Who knows, perhaps there are mutations: A pig that can climb. A rabbit with a prehensile tail. An elk with a unicorn's horn. Cells are quick-change artists. Life loves life. Humans may end, but the world won't.
—Sybil Smith
The earth was created for rich and poor in common. Nature knows no rich. She creates us all alike and alike she encloses us in the sepulchre. What more resembles one dead man than another dead man?
—Saint Ambrose
I studiously avoided all so-called holy men. I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself—out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.
—Carl Jung
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
—Aldous Huxley
We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves—for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings.
—Elizabeth Dodson Gray
Water is the driving force of all nature.
—Leonardo da Vinci
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
—Pat Buckley
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
—Steven Pinker
Fake food—I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut—is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
—Julia Child
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
—John Muir
The grandeur of nature is only the beginning. Beyond the grandeur is God.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
—Michel de Montaigne
We must return to nature and nature's god.
—Luther Burbank
Colors are the smiles of nature.
—Leigh Hunt
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.
—Laozi