Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.
Richard P. FeynmanThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John MuirWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas CarlyleThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John MuirA table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert EinsteinI think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.
Alice MunroI’m just a simple country girl.
Dolly PartonThe bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David ThoreauI’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.
Virat KohliIn the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark TwainWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeThe Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
Lao TzuSisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily DickinsonEven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin LutherIn order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.
Albert CamusReality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. FeynmanMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
Lao TzuI am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob DylanI live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.
George LucasTo make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
Emily DickinsonTrue Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.
Robert Baden-PowellThe best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard ShawThe land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob DylanThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CummingsThunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark TwainHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SocratesIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
AristotleHe who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo GalileiI’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey HepburnWhen you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat HanhHorses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice WalkerExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl SaganWater’s never clumsy.
Matthew McConaugheyOur character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAn architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John RuskinNature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David ThoreauAll art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van GoghThere are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George CarlinConsider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
Joyce MeyerIt’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad AliFishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert HooverNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Leonardo da VinciWe are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
Paulo CoelhoNature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFrom my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
Jane GoodallDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusNature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander PopeAll nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander PopeIf I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.
AuroraWe’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.
Richard BransonSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur SchopenhauerLittle by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.
Sunil ChhetriHere ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John MuirWhatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch SpinozaI would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch SpinozaBut I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan WattsIsn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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