If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.John Burroughs

Choose only one master - Nature.Rembrandt

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.Seneca

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.Hippocrates

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.Thomas Henry Huxley

I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.Viggo Mortensen

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.Steve Mc queen

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.E. B. White

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.Alice Walker

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.Robert Louis Stevenson

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.Albert Einstein

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.Michel de Montaigne

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.Heinrich Heine

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

Man is nature's sole mistake.William S. Gilbert

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.Francis Bacon, Sr.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.Blaise Pascal

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is to her simplicity.Emily Dickinson

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.Francis Bacon, Sr.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.Charles Dickens

Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.Epictetus

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.Jimmy Carter

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.Fran Lebowitz

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."Maya Angelou

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.Edward O. Wilson

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.Marcus Aurelius

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.Dale Carnegie

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.Dave Foreman

People must help one another; it is nature's law.Jean de la Fontaine

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.George Washington Carver

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.John Muir

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.Aristotle

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.William Shakespeare