Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. Mason Cooley on nature
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. Samuel Taylor Coleridge on nature
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. Franz Liszt on nature
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. W. Somerset Maugham on nature
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. Al Gore on nature
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. Thomas Huxley on nature
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. Thomas Huxley on nature
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. Reinhold Niebuhr on nature
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. Henry Rollins on nature
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. Xun Zi on nature
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein on nature
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Eric Hoffer on nature
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Dante Alighieri on nature
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. Elizabeth I on nature
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams on nature
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. David Herbert Lawrence on nature
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. W. Somerset Maugham on nature
No speech can stain what is noble by nature. Sophocles on nature
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph Addison on nature