Quotations about

Nature

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.

—William Wadsworth

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

—Paul Muni

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

—Henry David Thoreau

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

—Pierre Schaeffer

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

—Edouard Manet

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

—Juvenal

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

—William Wordsworth

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

—Francis Bacon

Nature was my kindergarten.

—William Christopher Handy

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

—Baltasar Gracián

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

—Werner Heisenberg

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

—Mary Webb

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

—Anne Bronte

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

—Ann Radcliffe