quotations about nature
Nature with her wealth of birds and flowers,
Has in her heart a place for every weed;
For her quick eyes require no microscope
To note the varied wonders and delights
That the Creator's humblest works possess.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Nature"
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
What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
"The Oeconomy Of Love"
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
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
GOETHE
Conversations with Goethe
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