Nature Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from nature dulls…

— Richard Louv

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

— Carl Sagan

“I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also…

— Elizabeth Berrien

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

— Jane Jacobs

“In our subjective hindrance, we are nevertheless the objectively unhindered expression of nature as one moment transforms into the next.”

— Thomas W. Clark

“All the pains are caused from going against the ‘nature’! 'Nature' adjusts everything but one does 'egoism' against ‘nature’!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in…

— Jennifer Ackerman

“nature optimizes for the whole, not for the individual, but most people judge good and bad based only on how it affects them.”

— Ray Dalio

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of…

— Russell Kirk