nature Quotes

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.