In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
I have now what Universal Nature wills me to have, and I do what my own nature wills me to do.
Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
There are no contradictions in nature.
Where nature is lacking, work supplies.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
Passing through nature to eternity.
The end is life in agreement with nature.
Keep looking straight forward to the goal to which Nature is leading you, Universal Nature through what befalls you, and your own nature by what has to be done by yourself.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
Nature is the best guide of a good life.
Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Now do you think one can acquire any appreciable knowledge of the nature of the soul without knowing the nature of the whole?
What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body.
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.
The true fruit of nature can only be plucked with a delicate hand not bribed by any earthly reward, and a fluttering heart. No hired man can help us to gather this crop.
The least movement affects all nature; the entire sea changes because of a rock.
Babies and animals are the mirrors of nature.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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