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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare on nature

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu on nature

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle on nature

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin on nature

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato on nature

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir on nature

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten on nature

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams on nature

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire on nature

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir on nature

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett on nature

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle on nature