Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.
Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners. I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.
Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.
Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature
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.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.
The nature of this flower is to bloom.
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.
