It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Water’s never clumsy.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Many readers fail to realize this, but ‚The Color Purple‘ is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one’s original God: the earth and nature.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren’t properly alert.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

But 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.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I couldn’t take pictures of green rolling hills.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

In 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.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.