quotations about nature
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
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"The Tomb"
As an authoress Nature is open to criticism, for her Book hath neither beginning, middle, nor end.
RICHARD GARNETT
De Flagello Myrtes
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 abhors a vacuum.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
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
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