Best Nature Quotes

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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

Going to the mountains is going home.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.