Quotes about nature
276 quotes from 143 people
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).
William Shakespeare1564–1616Troilus and CressidaIt is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778Emile (1762).Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Andy Warhol1928–1987In: “Inside Andy Warhol,” by Andy Warhol. Cosmopolitan, 179, Sept. 1975, p. 189.How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper.
Bill Gatesborn 1955How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
