It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
—Edmund Burke
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
—Philip James Bailey
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
—Samuel Daniel
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
—William Cowper
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
—Friedrich Schiller
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
—D. H. Lawrence
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
—Edwin Way Teale
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
—Edmund Burke
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
—Henry David Thoreau
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
—Pierre Bonnard
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
—Elbert Hubbard
The groves were God's first temples.
—William C. Bryant
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
—Gary Snyder
Moses sees the bush as it actually is.… All that is living burns. This is the fundamental fact of nature. And Moses saw it with his own two eyes directly. That glimpse of the real world—of the world as it is known to God—is not a world of isolated things but of processes in concert. God tells Moses, "Take off your shoes, because the ground where you are standing is holy ground." He is asking Moses to experience in his own body what the burning bush experiences: a living connection between heaven and earth, the life that stretches out like taffy between our father the sun and our mother the earth. If you do not believe this, take off your shoes and stand in the grass or in the sand or in the dirt.
—William Bryant Logan