Quotes on “nature”

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play...

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.