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| The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. | | François-Auguste Rodin | |
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| The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise | | John Dryden | |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| 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 | |
| The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. | | E. F. Schumacher | |
| The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. | | William Blake | |
| There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. | | François-Auguste Rodin | |
| There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst | | Thomas Paine | |
| They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.. | | Galileo Galilei | |
| Though you drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back. | | Horace | |
| To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. | | François-Auguste Rodin | |
| To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature | | William Shakespeare | |
| To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. | | William Shakespeare | |
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| True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist | | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism | | Albert Einstein | |
