Quotes – N

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty”.

―Albert Einstein

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

—Pablo Neruda

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

—Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.”

—James Thurber

“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences”.

―Robert Green Ingersoll

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished”.

―Lao Tzu

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

—Joseph Campbell,

“I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

—Emma Goldman 

“Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us”.

―Brian Jacques

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous”.

―Aristotle

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”

—Maxime Lagacé

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more” 

―Lord Byron

“Colours are the smiles of nature.”

—Leigh Hunt

“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.”

—John Muir

“If we remain humble and grounded in nature’s wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. (“Why step out of nature?”)”

―Erik Pevernagie

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

—William Shakespeare

“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”

—Anton Chekhov

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”

—Zeno

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

—Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”

—Jane Austen 

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful”.

―Alice Walker 

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”.

—Khalil Gibran

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter”.

—Rachel Carson

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order”.

—John Burroughs

“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature”.

―Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars”.

―Walt Whitman

“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley”.

―Theodore Roethke

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves”.

—Mahatma Gandhi

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”

―Rose Kennedy

“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.”

—Beau Taplin

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

―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’”

—Lewis Carroll