nature Quotes

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.