Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. --Eric Hoffer (in Spinach Powered Laptop)

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. --Frank Lloyd Wright (in How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier)

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. --Mahatma Gandhi (in Seed, Soil, Light: A Revolutionary's Journey)

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. --Frank Lloyd Wright (in The Restorative Power of Trees)

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. --Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 1: 2-4 (in Untitled)

All things are parts of one single system, which is called Nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with Nature. --Zeno, 300 - 260 B.C. (in Endangered Species Chocolate)

As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it. --Sir Crispin Tickell (in Elephant Orphanage)

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Hidden Power of Cow Dung)

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. --Albert Schweitzer (in Kids Worldwide Help Orphan Chimps)

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. --Albert Schweitzer (in The Encyclopedia of Life)

True abundance does exist; it flows from sufficiency, in an experience of the beauty and wholeness of what is. Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people. --Lynne Twist (in Personal Finance for the Masses)

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves. --Rachel Carson (in The Plastic Planet)

Nature, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions, and its processes in evolution. Every person, people, community, or nationality will be able to demand the recognition of rights for nature before the public bodies. --Quote From Constitution of Ecuador (in Now Nature Has Its Own Rights, in Ecuador!)

Speak to me about art and I will learn more about you. Nature is also like that. When you look deeply into the natural world you look deeply into yourself -- when you describe nature, you describe yourself. --Adam Wolpert (in Connecting Art and Ecology)

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning
--Werner Heisenberg (in Giant Water Lily: Nature's Hidden Designs)

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. --Joseph Campbell (in 20 Amazing Photos From Outer Space)

Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people. --Lynne Twist (in Living with Just Enough)

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. --Joseph Campbell (in 20 Amazing Pictures from Outer Space)

By assaulting nature, we raise the odds that we will assault each other. By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility. --Richard Louv (in 6 Ways More Nature in Our Lives Can Reduce Violence in Our World)

If you respect nature, nature will respect you. It is that simple. --Tenzing Bodosa (in The World's First Elephant-Friendly Farm)

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ---Joseph Campbell- (in The Heartbeat of a Drum)

It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. --Prince Ea (in Prince Ea: Three Seconds)

One who is obedient to nature receives the blessings of nature. --Soetsu Yanagi (in Shokunin and Devotion)

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Life as a Cup of Tea)

"The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this." --Hui-Neng (in Untitled)

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice. --Cicero (in Untitled)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. --Helen Keller (in Untitled)

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. --John Muir (in Untitled)

"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." --Oscar Wilde (in Untitled)

Things are going to change -- that is their nature. One day you succeed, one day you fail; one day you are at the top, another day you are at the bottom. But something in you is always exactly the same, and that something is your reality. --Osho (in Untitled)

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the skylife nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness that underlies the whole of life and death. --Sogyal Rinpoche (in Untitled)

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. --Charlene Spretnak (in FBI Agent A Reluctant Hero)

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. --Einstein (in Untitled)

This is the true joy in life, being recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it’s own sake; Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for a moment. I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw (in A Splendid Torch)

Security and changelessness are fabricated by the ego-dominated mind and do not exist in nature. --Unknown (in Untitled)

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. --John Ruskin (in Untitled)

The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens. --Anthony De Mello (in Meet the 'Dubbawalas')

Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each movement is etched with nature’s grand design~ do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things. --Morehei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido) (in Untitled)

We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Untitled)

Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature, are witnesses of your thoughts and deeds. --Winnebago Saying (in Untitled)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is a superstition. It does not exist in nature --Helen Keller (in Untitled)

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of every one there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep where there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form 'Who am I?' is the prinicpal means. --Ramana Maharishi (in Deep Sleep)

Consider this. All the ants of the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productivity nourishes plants, animals and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do. --Michael Braungart (in Ants of the Planet)

To explain that which is simple can be difficult indeed. If we can understand even one simple thing in depth, we will have greatly expanded our capacity for comprehending the nature of the universe and life itself. --David Hawkins (in Measuring Emotions)

When in the spring the withered gray of the fields gives way to a carpet of green, this is because millions of shoots are springing up anew from the roots. Our age must achieve spiritual renewal. It can do so only in one way: the masses of the people must reflect upon the nature of true goodness. Out of such reflection, new principles and ideas will inevitably arise. As the trees bear the same fruit anew year after year, so from generation to generation all worthwhile ideas must be born anew in the thinking of mankind. --Albert Schweitzer (in Springing Up Anew)

Multitudinousness of objects have no reality in themselves but are only seen of the mind and, therefore, are of the nature of maya and a dream. --Buddha (in Your Wish Is Its Command)

Think of a tree. When you think of a tree, you tend to think of a distinctly defined object. But when you look at it more closely, you will see that it has no independent existence. When you contemplate it you will find that it dissolves into an extremely subtle net of relationships that stretch across the universe. The rain that falls on its leaves, the wind that sways it, the soil that nourishes and sustains it all the seasons all form part of the tree. As you think about the tree more and more you will discover that everything in the universe helps make the tree what it is; that it cannot be isolated from anything else and at every moment its nature is subtly changing. --Soygal Rinpoche (in Universe Makes The Tree)

Life is a mystery until you touch the reality beyond the veil. When the mind is still and the search is intense, we have the vision to see reality all around us. Every person you meet is in a world you could know. Nature waits for our entrance, whether it is a forest or a rose. All around us is the presence waiting for a quiet mind and an open heart. Walking through the markets and riding in the subway, we can be close to the reality. We are moving through various states of reality during the day. --Herman Rednick (in Reality Beyond The Veil)

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Penguin Escape)

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. --Charles Darwin (in Chocolate)