quotations about nature
What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
"The Oeconomy Of Love"
All nature is full of God. He is enthroned in Light: he creates darkness: he hath his way in the whirlwind, fendeth abroad his lightnings, giveth snow like wool, scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes, and casteth forth his ice like morsels! Who can stand before his cold? Who can thunder with a voice like God? It is He who distils the rain from his bottles, who opens the bubbling fountains, who covers the fields with grass, and the hills with flocks, who spins out the fleecy air, and spreads forth the liquid plains, who refreshes us with his wings, lights us with the sun, and entertains us with his table, richly furnish'd with all the dainty of heaven.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
If Nature built by rule and square,
Than man what wiser would she be?
What wins us is her careless care,
And sweet unpunctuality.
ALFRED AUSTIN
"Nature and the Book", At the Gate of the Convent and Other Poems
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
GOETHE
Conversations with Goethe
Plants have mastered a pattern that has taken numerous mathematicians, biologists and physicists thousands of years to understand and replicate. What humans can only struggle to comprehend, nature has perfected, flawlessly and effortlessly.
CATHERINE GARNER
"Nature is math in living color", Union Daily Times, August 3, 2017
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
JACOB BRONOWSKI
Science and Human Values