Built Quote by Alfred Austin

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

— Robert Frost

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

— Stella Gibbons

“If we are to succeed in the great task before us we must adopt a humbler attitude towards the elementary things of life than…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

— Jacob Bronowski

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

— Immanuel Kant

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and…

— Immanuel Kant

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons…

— Galileo Galilei

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a…

— Wendell Berry

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

— Seneca the Younger

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

— Henry David Thoreau