Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

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.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

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.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

Man 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.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

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

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

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

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.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

Nature is not human hearted.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.