We offer quotes about nature. They were collected in the card file of wise thoughts, which is maintained by our library. These statements and poems were selected from various magazines and newspapers, as well as from Internet resources. Citations are arranged alphabetically by authors.

Everything is good in nature, but water is the beauty of all nature. S.T. Aksakov

"To live, you need the sun, freedom and a small flower." H.K. BUT dersen

Man is unhappy only because he does not know nature Holbach Paul Henri

“When visiting nature, do not do anything that you would consider indecent to do on a visit.” Armand David Lvovich(Russian geographer).

Man, of course, is the master of nature, but not in the sense of its exploiter, but as one who understands it and bears moral responsibility for the preservation and improvement of everything living and beautiful in it (and, consequently, in itself). A.S. Arseniev

Education only develops the moral forces of man, but does not give them: nature gives them to man.V.G. Belinsky

The higher the poet's genius, the deeper and broader he understands nature and the more successfully he presents it to us in connection with life. Vissarion Belinsky

In every man nature sprouts either as grains or as weeds; let him water the first and destroy the second in good time. Francis Bacon

Nature is easiest to subdue by obeying her. F. Bacon

Tree, grass, flower and bird

They don't always know how to defend themselves.

If they are destroyed

We will be alone on the planet! V. Berestov

Man can develop only in contact with nature, and not in spite of it. V. Bianchi

The whole vast world around me, above me and below me is full of unknown secrets. I will open them all my life, because this is the most exciting thing in the world. V. Bianchi

In nature, a person must draw rules for his behavior if he wants to be completely happy. buast pierre

Nature is not for everyone
He lifts his secret veil.
We still read it.
But who reads and understands? D. Venevitinov

Mankind can no longer spontaneously build its own history, but must coordinate it with the laws of the biosphere, from which man is inseparable. Humanity on Earth and the living and inanimate nature surrounding it constitute something unified, living according to the general laws of nature. IN AND. Vernadsky

Man made a huge mistake when he imagined that he could separate himself from nature and disregard its laws. IN AND. Vernadsky

The good of people and peace on Earth, the safety of the planet and the triumph of the “kingdom of reason” are the business of everyone and everyone. IN AND. Vernadsky

Nature is like a cloud: it is constantly changing, while remaining itself. - V. I. Vernadsky. IN AND. Vernadsky

The more we take from the world, the less we leave in it, and eventually we will be forced to pay our debts at the very moment that may not be suitable to ensure the continuation of our life. Wiener

Water is given the magical power to become the juice of life on earth. Leonardo da Vinci

Nature has taken care of everything so much that everywhere you find something to learn. Leonardo da Vinci

In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom is the highest justice of life. Leonardo da Vinci

The book of nature is an inexhaustible source of knowledge for man. Voltaire

Motherhood cannot be taken from the Earth,

not to take away, how not to scoop up the sea. V. Vysotsky

When I contemplate the wonders of a sunset or the grace of the sea, my soul bows in reverence before the Creator. Mahatma Gandhi

Nature is the best of books, written in a special language. This language must be learned. Garin N. (Garin-Mikhailovsky)

“I picked a flower and it withered.

I caught a moth -

And he died in my palm.

And then I realized

What to touch the beauty

Can only be done with the heart Hviezdoslav Pavol (1849-1921) - Slovak poet .

Traveling, observing nature, capturing its secrets and admiring this happiness means living. F. Gebler

Man does not become the master of nature until he has become the master of himself. Georg Hegel

Like a great artist, nature knows how to achieve great effects with small means. G. Heine

Nature is never wrong; if she breeds a fool, then she wants it. Heine show

Herzen A. I.

Nature cannot contradict man if man does not contradict her laws... A.I. Herzen

Grandiose things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free. A.I. Herzen

All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; they aspire to it, they fall into it, as into the ocean. A.I. Herzen

In nature, nothing arises instantly and nothing appears in the light in a completely finished form. A.I. Herzen

We live among nature, we are her friends. She constantly talks to us, but does not betray her secrets. I.V. Goethe.

People obey the laws of nature, even when they act against them. I.V. Goethe

Nature is the only book in which every page is full of deep content. I.V. Goethe

Nature is the creator of all creators. I.V. Goethe

Nature has no organs of speech, but creates tongues and hearts through which it speaks and feels. I.V. Goethe

Nature is always right; errors and errors come from people. I.V. Goethe

The plays of nature are always new, because every time there are new audiences. I.V. Goethe

God forgives and people forgive. Nature never forgives. I.V. Goethe

Nature does not recognize jokes; she is always truthful, always serious, always strict; she is always right; errors and errors come from people. Goethe I.

Neither satiety, nor hunger, and nothing else is good if one transgresses the measure of nature. Hippocrates

The doctor heals diseases, but nature heals. Hippocrates

Man is unhappy only because he does not know nature. Holbach Paul Henri

Primordial nature must be protected no less than we protect the paintings of Raphael, the Cologne Cathedral, Indian temples; they can be restored if desired. By destroying or endangering many species of animals on Earth, people thereby impoverish not only the Nature around us, but also themselves. B. Grzimek(German zoologist).

Nature likes, attracts and inspires only because it is natural. Wilhelm Humboldt

Culture cannot grow without ecological culture, and ecological culture cannot take place at all in conditions of lack of culture. Danilov-Danilyan Viktor Ivanovich

If we let our imagination run wild, it may suddenly turn out that animals - our brothers in pain, sickness, death, suffering and disaster, our slaves in the hardest work, companions in entertainment - share a common ancestor with us - and we are all molded together. from the same clay. C. Darwin

The more we know the immutable laws of nature, the more incredible her miracles become for us. C. Darwin

We have inherited an unspeakably beautiful and varied garden, but the trouble is that we are useless gardeners. We have not taken care to learn the simplest rules of gardening. J. Durrell

The rate at which civilization is advancing, and therefore the rate at which humans are devastating our amazingly beautiful planet, is increasing month by month. It is the duty of everyone to try to prevent the terrible defilement of our world, and in this struggle everyone can make their own, however small, however modest, contribution. J.Darrell Gerald(English zoologist, writer-animalist, protector of nature and animals).

They are the most beautiful

What gives us nature on earth,

That is her priceless gift,

For all arts, a flower -

The pattern is unchanged. Jacques Delisle

After all, if the expanse of fields and the beauty of silence

We were not nice, pleasant and needed

Where would such a craving for them come from?

Everyone secretly appreciates them as a true blessing. Jacques Delisle

Ever since man learned how to plow,

Decorate the house and yard, he felt the desire

And he began to plant around himself for beauty

Trees and flowers to your liking.

After all, every garden is a landscape, and it is unique.

Whether he is modest or rich, I admire him equally.

Gardeners should be artists! Jacques Delisle ("Gardens, or the Art of Decorating Rural Views")

Nature is like a woman who, showing from under her clothes first one part of her body, then another, gives persistent admirers some hope to know her all someday. Didro D.

What is truth? The correspondence of our judgments to the creatures of nature. Denis Diderot

How could nature be so bright and beautiful if the destiny of man was not the same? Denis Diderot

Will the seas die tomorrow

Will the birds fall silent, will the pines freeze?

The dawn can no longer rise

And the sky will ask: "Is it too late ?!" N. Dobronravov

Only that is strong and stable, only that has a future, which is done in accordance with nature. V.V. Dokuchaev

Contact with nature is the very last word of all progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners. F.M. Dostoevsky

He who does not love nature does not love man, he is not a citizen. F.M. Dostoevsky

Take care of these lands, these waters,

Loving even a small bylinochka,

Take care of all the animals inside nature,

Kill only the beasts within you. E.A. Yevtushenko

It's no coincidence that the dew breaks in the morning

Fireflies on the palms of the foliage,

This is how nature looks at us, as if asking

Our help, protection and love. E. Evtushenko

We must not allow people to direct to their own destruction those forces of nature that they have been able to discover and conquer. F. Joliot-Curie

The attitude of a person to the environment is already the person himself, his character, his philosophy, his soul, his attitude towards other people. S.P. Zalygin

Man's behavior in nature is also a mirror of his soul. K.L. Zelinsky

There are no rewards or punishments in nature, only consequences. Robert Ingersoll

A healthy person is the most precious product of nature. Carlyle Thomas(English writer)

Heraclitus argued that one cannot step into the same river twice. Modern ecologists say that there are rivers that cannot be entered even once. E. Kashcheev

The force that holds the cradle of every nation in its hands is the nature of its country. IN. Klyuchevsky (Russian historian)

Be sure to plant a tree, even if the world ends tomorrow. Koran.

Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees. Paulo Coelho

Man does not create anything anew, which would not already be in nature in a hidden or potential form. Paulo Coelho

Among the high aesthetic pleasures of man lies the enjoyment of nature. I.N. Kramskoy(Russian artist).

Before nature threatened man, but now man threatens nature. Cousteau Jacques Yves

Even in his most beautiful dreams, man cannot imagine anything more beautiful than nature. Alphonse de Lamartine

Your physics is worthless if it obscures everything else from you: the rustle of the forest, the colors of the sunset, the ringing of rhymes. This is some kind of truncated physics, if you want - emasculated. For example, I don't believe in it... Any isolation first of all testifies to limitations. A physicist who does not perceive poetry, art, is a bad physicist. L.D. Landau

Heaven and earth are lasting. Heaven and earth are durable because they do not exist for themselves. That's why they can be durable. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

We follow the change of snowfalls, bad weather, frost and rain no less than the change of dynasties, parliaments of governments and leaders. Y. Levitansky

Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children: everything acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again such as it once was and, surely, will someday be again. M.Yu. Lermontov

The true sanctuary for relaxation, open to all people, is and will be nature. Lingner Max

Birds and animals, flowers and trees cry out to a person: save, save, where you stand, where you live - at a distance of a glance and a voice, even at arm's length. D.S. Likhachev

Ecology should not be limited to the tasks of preserving the environment. A person lives not only in the natural environment, but also in the environment created by the culture of his ancestors, by himself. D.S. Likhachev

There are two divisions in ecology: biological ecology and cultural or moral ecology. Non-observance of the laws of biological ecology can kill a person biologically, non-observance of cultural ecology can morally kill a person. And there is no abyss between them, just as there is no clearly marked boundary between nature and culture. D.S. Likhachev

You can get to know the nature of your native land either with your own eyes or with the help of books. M.V. Lomonosov

Everything is perfected by nature. Lucretius

…Let's, people, love the planet. There is nothing like it in the entire universe. I.Mazin

Man lives by nature. Karl Marx

The road of civilization is paved with tin cans A. Moravia

"In your power, in your power,

To keep everything from falling apart

into meaningless parts. Martynov L.N.

A man, even if he is three times a genius,

It remains a thinking plant.

Trees and grass are related to him,

Don't be ashamed of this relationship.

You were given from your birth

Strength, stamina, vitality of the plant! S. Marshak

We cannot expect favors from nature; to take them from her is our task. I.V. Michurin

The world is not the environment, but our only home in which we can only live! Mankind must learn to live in harmony with Nature, with its laws. People should perceive themselves not as masters, but as part of Nature. N.N. Moiseev

Nothing in nature is useless . Michel Montaigne

When we play with a cat, another question is who plays with whom - I play with her or she plays with me. Michel Montaigne

Nothing in nature is useless, not even uselessness itself. . Montaigne

Nature is a pleasant mentor, and not even so much pleasant as careful and faithful - Michel Montaigne

Nature can and does everything. Michel de Montaigne

Only yours and my secret business,

So that the earth with humanity will fly forever. Moritz Yu.

It is not necessary to clean the air and water, it is much more important not to pollute them. A.N. Nesmeyanov

Understand the living language of nature, and you will say: the world is beautiful! I.S. Nikitin

We have changed our environment so radically that now, in order to exist in it, we must change ourselves. . W. Norbert(American mathematician, "father of cybernetics").

Not individual white spots - a huge ocean of the unknown surrounds us. And the more we know, the more mysteries nature asks us. V.A. Obruchev

Us at any time of the year

Wise nature teaches. V. Orlova

Man is the highest product of earthly nature. But in order to use the treasures of nature, to enjoy these treasures, a person must be healthy, strong and smart. I.P. Pavlov(Russian physiologist).

You can’t write books and not know what herbs grow in local glades and swamps, how birch leaves differ from aspen leaves ..., whether tits fly away for the winter, when rye blooms and what winds bring rain or drought, cloudiness or clear skies ... K.Paustovsky

Nature will act on us with all its power only when we bring our human element into the sensation of it, when our state of mind, our love, our joy, or sadness come into full conformity with nature and it will no longer be possible to separate the freshness of the morning from the light. beloved eyes and the measured noise of the forest from reflections on the life lived. K. Paustovsky.

“Nature must be protected, as we protect people. Descendants will never forgive us the devastation of the earth, the desecration of what belongs not only to us, but also to them by right.K. Paustovsky

And if I sometimes want to live up to a hundred and twenty years, it is only because one life is not enough to experience to the end all the charm and all the healing power of our Russian nature. K. Paustovsky.

Love for one's native country begins with love for nature. K. Paustovsky

Understanding nature, humane, caring attitude towards it is one of the elements of morality, a particle of the worldview. K. Paustovsky

Forests not only bring great benefits to man, but also decorate and heal the earth, support life itself on earth. K. Paustovsky

When a man has a dog, he becomes a man. Dogs leave marks on carpets, furniture and clean clothes. But the most noticeable are in our hearts. I. Petrakova

All the best in nature belongs to everyone together Petronius

In the study and conquest of nature there is no place for personal arbitrariness; one cannot invent here, one must only observe and understand, use the forces that have existed from the age and unravel the connection between causes and effects that has existed from the age. DI. Pisarev

The great book of nature is open to everyone, and in this great book so far ... only the first pages have been read. DI. Pisarev

Ignorance of nature is the greatest ingratitude. Pliny the Elder

There is no truth without love for nature,

There is no love for nature without a sense of beauty. Ya.P. Polonsky

Because the laws of nature are immutable, they cannot be broken or created. K.R. popper

The woman who gives birth is closest to nature: on one side she is even nature itself, and on the other, man himself. Prishvin M. M.

For others, nature is firewood, coal, ore, or a dacha, or just a landscape. For me, nature is the environment from which, like flowers, all our human talents have grown. M. Prishvin

Environmental protection is a multifaceted and complex process in which every person takes part. M. Prishvin

Therefore, we rejoice when we get into nature, because here we come to ourselves. Prishvin M. M.

Each person in the world has his own unique place and everyone needs to decide in it. If you find it and step on it, then it will be good for yourself, and for people it will be as if for this you are standing in this place and only for them you are doing everything. M. Prishvin

After all, my friends, I write about nature, but I myself think only about people. We are the masters of nature, and for us it is the pantry of the sun with the great treasures of life. Fish - water, bird - air, beast - forest, steppe, mountains. But a man needs a homeland, and to protect nature means to protect the homeland. M. Prishvin

Man! Raise your eyes from the earth to the sky - what, worthy of surprise, is the order there! K. Prutkov

The wind is the breath of nature. K. Prutkov

Ecology has become the loudest word on earth, louder than war and the elements. It characterizes the same concept of a universal misfortune that has never before existed before humanity. V.G. Rasputin

Christ walked on water. If the pollution of rivers does not stop, soon everyone will be able to walk on water.

Mankind has behaved like an unreasonable master on the planet for too long. Creating amenities for a comfortable life, we completely forgot that the resources of nature, alas, are far from unlimited, that our children will have to live in cities where the air is dirty and poisoned. It is time to remember that nature does not forgive mistakes. Man must take care of nature, remember that he himself is a part of this nature. Is it wise to cut the branch you are sitting on? V. G. Rasputin

There is no greater crime than to rape, mutilate, pervert nature. Nature, the unique cradle of life in the Universe, is also the mother who gave birth, nursed, raised us, and therefore we must treat her as our mother, with the highest degree of moral love. V.G. Rasputin

Nature does not need our protection, we need its patronage: clean air to breathe, crystal water to drink, all nature to live. N.F. Reimers

“No material wealth can replace a healthy living environment” N.F. Reimers

“What everyone can do is do no harm! Don't be indifferent! Do not destroy! He who plants a tree will not break it.” N.F. Reimers

If we want to achieve any agreement with Nature, then in most cases we will have to accept her conditions. R. Ricklefs

…Forests without birds

and land without water.

Less and less

surrounding nature.

More -

environment. R. Rozhdestvensky

There is nothing more inventive than nature.
Amazing is the wisdom of nature, which, with such an infinite variety, managed to equalize everyone! Erasmus of Rotterdam

Watch nature and follow the path it shows you. Rousseau Jean-Jacques

How I feel sorry for the people about whom

They say that their sullen eye

He sees only reservoirs in lakes,

And there is a supply of wood in the forest. N.N. Rylenkov(Russian poet).

To protect the Earth, nature, you need to love it, to love, you need to know, having learned - it is impossible not to love . A.N.Sladkov

I live and breathe nature

Inspirational and simple writing,

Dissolving the soul in simplicity,

I live on earth in beauty. I. Severyanin

Living happily and living according to nature are one and the same. L.A. Seneca (younger)

Nature searches us when we leave, as when we enter. You can't take more than you brought. L.A. Seneca (senior)

We are all children of the same ship named Earth, which means that there is simply nowhere to transfer from it ... There is a firm rule: get up in the morning, wash yourself, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order. A. de Saint-Exupery

Water! You have no color, no smell, no taste, you cannot be described... You are not just necessary for life, you are life. A. de Saint-Exupery

We do not inherit land from our ancestors, but borrow it from our children. A. de Saint-Exuper

Hounded and pressed against the wall, the cat turns into a tiger. Miguel Cervantes

Nature is man's friend. And you have to be friends with each other.
People can't live without clean air
clean water, fresh greenery, sunshine,
even without communication with animals and birds.
These are our countrymen, we live on Earth together with them.
And every life requires attention and respect ... N. Sladkov

Aphorisms and quotes about nature

Recently, there have been fierce debates on the topic of nature conservation, while various aphorisms and quotes about nature are often used as arguments.
Someone even declared humanity a malignant tumor on the long-suffering body of planet Earth.
But after all, we are all created by nature, and it surrounds us from all sides. It is enough to read aphorisms and quotes about nature to be convinced of this.

“Nature has no organs of speech, but creates tongues and hearts through which it speaks and feels”
Johann Goethe

“Nature can and does everything”
Michel Montaigne

“There are no omens. Nature does not send messengers to us - for this she is too wise or too ruthless.
Oscar Wilde

“Illness is nature's own remedy for the purpose of eliminating disorder in the organism; therefore, medicine comes only to the aid of the healing power of nature.
Arthur Schopenhauer

“The more they delve into the actions of nature, the more visible becomes the simplicity of the laws that she follows in her actions”
Alexander Radishchev

“Great things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free"
Alexander Herzen

“You can control nature only by obeying it”
Francis Bacon

“God is cunning, but not malicious. Nature hides her secrets by virtue of her height, not by tricks."
Albert Einstein

"He who does not love nature does not love man, he is not a citizen"
Fedor Dostoevsky

“Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees”
Paulo Coelho

"Man does not create anything anew, which would not already be in nature in a hidden or potential form"
Sergei Bulgakov

“In everything that rejoices in nature for its grace, abounds in fertility and shines with beauty, love is manifested, but the seal of its violation is that which is exhausted from lethargy, pallor, weakness and the proximity of death”
Lorenzo Pisano

“Nature is like a magician: you need an eye and an eye for it”
Samuel Butler

“Nature has endowed woman with tremendous power, and therefore it is not surprising that laws limit this power”
Samuel Johnson

“We all sooner or later come to the conclusion that if there is something natural and rational in nature, then we ourselves came up with it”
Aldous Huxley

“I love nature.
“And this after what she did to you?”
Faina Ranevskaya

“It is said that the natural sciences raised the strength of man, gave him some unknown power. Rather, they reduced nature to man, made it possible to predict its pettiness, to predict that, after a proper investigation, it would appear in the same order as human nature.
Vladimir Vernadsky

“Nature is an ever-changing cloud; never remaining the same, it always remains itself.”
Ralph Emerson

“It seems that as humanity subjugates nature, a person becomes a slave to other people, or a slave to his own meanness”
Karl Marx

"Nature ... awakens in us the need for love"
Ivan Turgenev

“Nature is never wrong; if she breeds a fool, then she wants it"
Henry Shaw

“Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children: everything acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again the same as it once was and, surely, will someday be again”
Mikhail Lermontov

“If nature had as many laws as the state, the Lord himself would not be able to manage it”
Carl Burne

“Nature has four big scenery - the seasons, always the same actors - the sun, the moon and other luminaries, but it changes the audience, sending them to another world”
Antoine Rivarol

“The higher the genius of the poet, the deeper and more extensively he understands nature and the more successfully he presents it to us in connection with life”
Vissarion Belinsky

“The life of nature is continuous creativity, and although everything that is born in it dies, nothing perishes in it, is not destroyed, for death is birth”
Nikolai Stankevich

“God was not bad at nature, but with man he got a misfire”
Jules Renard

“Nature is simple and does not luxuriate in unnecessary causes”
Isaac Newton

“Nature must not have created a woman so ugly that she could remain completely indifferent to the praise given to her appearance”
Philip Chesterfield

“A person cannot influence nature, cannot take possession of any of its forces, if he does not know the laws of nature, does not know how to measure and calculate them. Knowledge and study are the joy and right of mankind; they are part of the national wealth and are often a substitute for goods too sparsely distributed by nature.
Alexander Humboldt

"Nature does nothing for no reason"
Thomas Brown

“Wonderfully all the same wound up in nature. Any man who is not at all attractive in appearance is sure to become the chosen one of some woman.
Agatha Christie

“How could nature be so bright and beautiful if the destiny of man was not the same?”
Henry Thoreau

"Man! Raise your eyes from the earth to the sky - what, worthy of amazement, is the order there!
Kozma Prutkov

“Nature said to a woman: be beautiful if you can, wise if you want, but you must be prudent by all means”
Pierre Beaumarchais

“All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; they aspire to it, they fall into it like into the ocean.
Alexander Herzen

“Nature, having created people as they are, gave them great consolation from many evils, endowing them with family and homeland”
Hugo Foscolo

“Nature is always right; but errors and errors come from people.”
Johann Goethe

"The moral impact of nature on any person is measured by the truth that she revealed to him"
Ralph Emerson

"All nature is a conjugation of the verb "to eat" in the passive and active voice"
William Inge

“Nature is never deceived ... Any fake is hated by nature, and the best thing is that which is not distorted by either science or art”
Erasmus of Rotterdam

“Nature says this: “Either study my laws, master me, benefit, or I will enslave you and, without giving any benefit, I will also cause you hardships” ”
Michael Nalbandyan

“Nature is by no means the mother who nurtured us. She is our creation."
Oscar Wilde

“In everything that nature works on, she does nothing hastily”
Jean Lamarck

“Nature is in some way its own doctor, and in its natural activity lies that natural method of treatment, thanks to which the inappropriate is eliminated, and the expedient remains”
Ludwig Buechner

“In the nature of rational beings lies the ability to feel their imperfections; therefore, nature gave us modesty, that is, a sense of shame in front of these imperfections.
Charles Montesquieu

“There are days - almost like twins, only the weather is different”
Haruki Murakami

“Nature is a pleasant mentor, and not even so much pleasant as careful and faithful”
Michel Montaigne

“Man, slowly and gradually freeing himself from the slavery of things, removes the dead cover from nature and recognizes the forces that create it”
Sergei Bulgakov

"Nature does not provide for marriage"
Napoleon I

“We are still far from the time when it will be possible to unite all our sensuous intuitions into one concept of nature. It is doubtful whether such a time will ever come at all. The complexity of the problem and the immeasurability of the Cosmos make this hope almost in vain. But no matter how unattainable for us a complete solution of the problem, it still remains possible to partially resolve it, the desire to understand the world of phenomena is the highest and eternal goal of any study of nature.
Alexander Humboldt

“Nature cannot be caught sloppy and half-dressed, it is always beautiful”
Ralph Emerson

“The first and undoubted duty of man is to participate in the struggle with nature for his life and the lives of other people”
Lev Tolstoy

"Man lives by nature"
Karl Marx

“As in nature, so in the state: it is easier to change many things at once than one thing”
Francis Bacon

“A painter's picture will not be perfect if he takes the pictures of others as an inspiration; but if he learns from the things of nature, he will bear good fruit.”
Leonardo da Vinci

"The joys of a naturalist: lifting nature's skirts"
Jean Rostand

"Contact with nature is the very last word of all progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners"
Fedor Dostoevsky

“Whatever you say, human dignity is recognized even in nature. Wanting to drive birds away from fruit trees, they put up a scarecrow, and even the remote resemblance of this scarecrow to a person is enough to inspire respect.
Soren Kierkegaard

“The wisdom of nature is amazing, which, with such an infinite variety, managed to equalize everyone!”
Erasmus of Rotterdam

“The very spots and imperfections of nature are not devoid of a certain benefit, introducing a pleasant variety and elevating the beauty of the rest of the universe, just as shadows in a picture serve to highlight its clearer and brighter parts”
George Berkeley

“The peasant is perhaps the only one of all people who does not like the rural landscape and never looks at it”
Jules Renard

“There are no rewards or punishments in nature, but only consequences”
Robert Ingersoll

"There is nothing useless in nature"
Michel Montaigne

“Art is like nature. If you don't let it in the door, it will enter the window."
Samuel Butler

“Nature creates man, but develops and forms his society”
Vissarion Belinsky

“In nature, every phenomenon is a tangled ball; in society, every person is a pebble in a mosaic pattern. Both in the physical world and in the spiritual world everything is intertwined, there is nothing pure, nothing isolated.
Nicola Chamfort

“Retribution in this world always comes. There are two Attorney Generals: one is the one who stands at your door and punishes offenses against society, the other is nature itself. She knows all the vices that elude the laws.
Denis Diderot

“Nature is pleasant, attracts and inspires only because it is natural”
Wilhelm Humboldt

“If nature is matter striving to become soul, then art is soul expressing itself in material things”
Oscar Wilde

“When I contemplate the wonders of a sunset or the grace of the sea, my soul bows in reverence before the Creator”
Gandhi

"Wind is the breath of nature"
Kozma Prutkov

"When Nature wants to create something, she creates a genius for this"
Ralph Emerson

“Strong in a person is an unconscious desire for nature (the only way of his life); this desire is so strong that a person does not disdain to use miserable parodies of nature - gardens and even indoor plants "
Nicholas Roerich

“Let's not ... be too deceived by our victories over nature. For every such victory, she takes revenge on us.
Friedrich Engels

"Nature will always take its toll"
William Shakespeare

“Man as an individual, placed face to face with nature, is insignificant. Man, as a species, is powerful, and only the immutability of the laws of nature can be the limit for his self-lawful development. For him, as for a rational being, as possessing the consciousness of the laws of nature, there is nothing insubordinate in the universe, there is nothing supernatural, such that it would not be contained in its nature and did not develop from it: he himself is both a microcosm and a macrocosm.
Mikhail Petrashevsky

“Give up annoying guardianship - and generous nature itself will find the way to perfection”
Edmund Burke

“In nature, opposite causes often produce the same effects: the horse equally falls to its feet from stagnation and from excessive riding”
Mikhail Lermontov

“Nature always acts slowly and economically in its own way”
Charles Montesquieu

“Even in his most beautiful dreams, a person cannot imagine anything more beautiful than nature”
Alphonse Lamartine

“On a green, flowering shore, above the dark depths of a river or lake ... imaginary passions will subside, imaginary storms will subside, proud dreams will crumble, unrealizable hopes will scatter! Nature will enter into her eternal rights, you will hear her voice, muffled for a while by fuss, trouble, laughter, screaming and all the vulgarity of human speech!
Sergey Aksakov

“A thing that exists in nature becomes much more beautiful if it resembles an object of art, but an object of art does not become truly beautiful from the resemblance to a thing that exists in nature”
Oscar Wilde

"Nature is the creator of all creators"
Johann Goethe

“Nature was created in order to emancipate us in a conspiracy with the spirit”
Ralph Emerson

“Nature intended to make a woman the pinnacle of creation, but she made a mistake with clay and chose too soft”
Gotthold Lessing

“There is nothing in the world that is done against the laws of nature. What is contrary to the laws of nature is false.”
Michael Nalbandyan

“By nature, people are not at all enemies to each other”
Jean Jacques Rousseau

“In nature, nothing arises instantly and nothing appears in the light in a completely finished form”
Alexander Herzen

“We want not only to know how nature works (and how natural phenomena occur), but also, if possible, to achieve the goal, perhaps utopian and daring in appearance, to find out why nature is this way and not another. In this, scientists find the highest satisfaction.
Albert Einstein

"Nature does not tolerate lies"
Thomas Carlyle

“Nature is monstrously unfair. Talent is evidence of this "
Aldous Huxley

“Everything in nature is held together. Who knows - in order for a person to take one step towards his moral ideal, shouldn't the whole world move along with him?
Jean Guyot

“In every man, nature sprouts either as cereals or as weeds; let him water the first and destroy the second at the right time.”
Francis Bacon

“A people is a roundabout way of nature to come to six or seven great people. - Yes, - and then to get around them "
Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is truth? Conformity of our judgments to the creatures of nature"
Denis Diderot

"The main purpose of nature, apparently, is to illustrate the lines of poets"
Oscar Wilde

“Nature has arranged it so that it is not only madmen who have illusions, but also wise men: otherwise, the latter would suffer too much from their own wisdom”
Nicola Chamfort

“In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom is the highest justice of life”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Ignorance of nature is the root of those unknown forces before which the human race has trembled for so long, and of those superstitious creeds that have been the sources of all its disasters”
Paul Holbach

"The craving for rural life, the desire to break out" into nature "is especially widespread in countries with a bad climate"
Aldous Huxley

“Nature does not tolerate inaccuracies and does not forgive mistakes”
Ralph Emerson

“Nature never deceives us; we ourselves are deceived"
Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Nature is like a woman who, showing from under her clothes one part of her body, then another, gives persistent admirers some hope to know her all someday”
Denis Diderot

"Man does not become the master of nature until he has become the master of himself"
Georg Hegel

“Nature has both flour and chaff, both vile and charming”
William Shakespeare

"Nature is the only book that contains deep content on all its pages"
Johann Goethe

“Nature imitates art. It is able to demonstrate only those effects that are already familiar to us through poetry or painting. This is the secret of the charm of nature, as well as the secret of its flaws.
Oscar Wilde

"Nature also teaches animals to know their friends"
William Shakespeare

“But why change the processes of nature? There may be a deeper philosophy, which we never dreamed of, a philosophy that reveals the secrets of nature, but does not change its course by penetrating into it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Always remember that nature is not God, man is not a machine, hypothesis is not a fact”
Denis Diderot

“The laws of nature are obeyed by people even when they fight against them”
Johann Goethe

“We must not invent, not invent, but look for what nature creates and brings”
Francis Bacon

“A man, not being clothed with beneficent nature, received from above the gift of tailoring”
Kozma Prutkov

"Nature is conquered only by obeying its laws"
Francis Bacon

“Our callousness, our selfishness encourage us to look with envy at nature, but she herself will envy us when we recover from ailments”
Ralph Emerson

“Nature has taken care of everything so much that everywhere you find something to learn”
Leonardo da Vinci

“When art becomes more diverse, nature, no doubt, will also become less annoyingly homogeneous”
Oscar Wilde

“Nature does not know a stop in its movement and executes any inactivity”
Johann Goethe

... We are all carried away into the distance on the same planet - we are the crew of one ship. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Without the belief that nature is subject to laws, there can be no science. Norbert Wiener

Good nature has taken care of everything so that everywhere you find something to learn. Leonardo da Vinci

Closest to the Divine in this world is nature. Astolf de Custine

The wind is the breath of nature. Kozma Prutkov

In an immoral society, all inventions that increase the power of man over nature are not only not good, but an undeniable and obvious evil. Lev Tolstoy

In undeveloped countries, it is deadly to drink water; in developed countries, it is deadly to breathe air. Jonathan Rayban

In nature, everything is connected with each other, and there is nothing accidental in it. And if a random phenomenon comes out, look for a human hand in it. Mikhail Prishvin

In nature, there are both grains and dust. William Shakespeare

In nature, nothing is wasted except nature itself. Andrey Kryzhanovsky

Time destroys false opinions, and the judgments of nature confirm. Mark Cicero

Nature has its own poetry in its time. John Keats

All the best in nature belongs to everyone together. Petronius

All living things are afraid of torment, all living things are afraid of death; know yourself not only in man, but in every living being, do not kill and do not cause suffering and death. Buddhist wisdom

In all areas of nature ... a certain regularity dominates, independent of the existence of thinking humanity. Max Planck

In his tools man has power over external nature, while for his purposes he is rather subordinate to it. Georg Hegel

The richest countries of old were those whose nature was most abundant; the richest countries today are those in which man is most active. Henry Buckle

Every thing in nature is either a cause towards you or an effect from us. Marsilio Ficino

As long as people do not listen to the sound mind of nature, they will be forced to obey either dictators or the opinion of the people. Wilhelm Schwebel

Stupid is he who is not satisfied with what happens according to the laws of nature. Epictetus

They say one swallow does not make spring; but is it really because one swallow does not make spring, that swallow that already feels spring does not fly, but wait. So it is necessary to wait then for every bud and grass, and there will be no spring. Lev Tolstoy

Grandiose things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Even in his most beautiful dreams, man cannot imagine anything more beautiful than nature. Alphonse de Lamartine

Even the smallest pleasure bestowed on us by nature is a mystery beyond the comprehension of the mind. Luc de Vauvenargues

The ideal of human nature lies in orthobiosis, i.e. in the development of man with the aim of achieving a long, active and cheerful old age, leading in the final period to the development of a feeling of saturation with life. Ilya Mechnikov

The search for goals in nature has its source in ignorance. Benedict Spinoza

He who does not love nature does not love man either, that is a bad citizen. Fedor Dostoevsky

Whoever looks at nature superficially is easily lost in the boundless "All," but whoever listens more deeply to its miracles is constantly led to God, the Lord of the world. Carl de Geer

Our callousness, our selfishness induces us to look with envy at nature, but she herself will envy us when we recover from ailments. Ralph Emerson

There is nothing more inventive than nature. Mark Cicero

But why change the processes of nature? There may be a deeper philosophy than we have ever dreamed of, a philosophy that reveals the secrets of nature, but does not change its course by penetrating into it. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

One of the most difficult tasks of our time is the problem of slowing down the process of destruction of wildlife ... Archie Carr

The main law of nature is the preservation of mankind. John Locke

Let us thank the wise nature for making the necessary easy and the heavy unnecessary. Epicurus

As long as people do not know the laws of nature, they blindly obey them, and once they know them, then the forces of nature obey people. Georgy Plekhanov

Nature will always take its toll. William Shakespeare

Nature is the house in which man lives. Dmitry Likhachev

Nature is impassive to man; she is neither an enemy nor a friend to him; it is now a convenient, now an inconvenient field for his activity. Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nature is an eternal example of art; and the greatest and noblest thing in nature is man. Vissarion Belinsky

Nature has implanted in every good heart a noble feeling, by virtue of which it cannot be happy itself, but must seek its happiness in others. Johann Goethe

Nature has invested in man some innate instincts, such as: the feeling of hunger, sexual feeling, etc., and one of the strongest feelings of this order is the feeling of ownership. Pyotr Stolypin

Nature is always stronger than principles. David Hume

Nature is one, and there is nothing equal to her: the mother and daughter of herself, she is the Deity of the gods. Consider only her, Nature, and leave the rest to the common people. Pythagoras

Nature is, in a certain sense, the gospel, loudly proclaiming the creative power, wisdom, and all the greatness of God. And not only the heavens, but also the bowels of the earth preach the glory of God. Mikhail Lomonosov

Nature is the cause of everything, it exists by itself; it will exist and act forever... Paul Holbach

Nature, which endowed every animal with the means of subsistence, gave astronomy as an assistant and ally astrology. Johannes Kepler

Nature scoffs at the decisions and decrees of princes, emperors and monarchs, and at their request she would not change her laws one iota. Galileo Galilei

Nature does not make people, people make themselves. Merab Mamardashvili

Nature does not know a stop in its movement and executes any inactivity. Johann Goethe

Nature does not presuppose any goals for itself ... All final causes are only human inventions. Benedict Spinoza

Nature does not recognize jokes, she is always truthful, always serious, always strict; she is always right; errors and errors come from people. Johann Goethe

Patience is most reminiscent of the method by which nature creates its creations. Honore de Balzac

What is contrary to nature never leads to good. Friedrich Schiller

A person has quite enough objective reasons to strive for the conservation of wildlife. But in the end, only his love can save nature. Jean Dorst

Good taste suggested to good society that contact with nature is the very last word of science, reason, and common sense. Fedor Dostoevsky

Man does not become the master of nature until he has become the master of himself. Georg Hegel

Mankind - without ennobling it with animals and plants - will perish, become impoverished, fall into the rage of despair, like a lonely man in solitude. Andrey Platonov

The more one goes into the workings of nature, the more visible becomes the simplicity of the laws that she follows in her doings. Alexander Radishchev

Grandiose things are done by grandiose means, nature alone does great things for free.

GERTSEN Alexander Ivanovich

The plays of nature are always new, because every time there are new audiences.

Goethe Johann Wolfgang

The most wonderful physician is nature, if only because it cures three-quarters of all diseases and never speaks ill of its colleagues.

CHERBULIER Victor

Man conquered nature, but this is the case when reparations are paid not by the vanquished, but by the winner. The winner will have to pay a lot so that the vanquished does not finally stretch out his legs.

PESKOV Vasily Mikhailovich

A valley, a little still water and a ray of sunset are the simplest things, the most ordinary, the most expensive.

Ruskin D.

…Because we rejoice, getting into nature, that here we come to ourselves.

Prishvin M. M.

It seems that, as humanity subjugates nature, man becomes a slave to other people or else a slave to his own meanness.

Marks K.

All the best in nature belongs to everyone together.

PETRONIUS.

Animals have that noble feature that a lion never becomes, out of cowardice, the slave of another lion, and a horse the slave of another horse.

Michel Montaigne.

Nature does not recognize jokes;
she is always truthful, always serious, always strict; she is always right;
errors and errors come from people.

Goethe I.

... Contact with nature is the very last word of any progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners.

Dostoevsky F. M.

The human inclination is aimed at what corresponds to nature.

Cicero.

Amazing is the wisdom of nature, which, with such an infinite variety, managed to equalize everyone!

Erasmus of Rotterdam.

It is so by nature itself.

Livy

Progress is the law of nature.

Voltaire

All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; they aspire to it, they fall into it, as into the ocean.

Herzen A. I.

There is nothing more orderly than nature.

Cicero

Ignorance of nature is the root of those unknown forces before which the human race has so long trembled, and of those superstitious creeds which have been the source of all its calamities.

Holbach P.

Nature is conquered only by obeying its laws.

Bacon F.

Nature is like a woman who, showing from under her clothes first one part of her body, then another, gives persistent admirers some hope to know her all someday.

Didro D.

Protecting nature means protecting the Motherland.

Prishvin M. M.

There is nothing more beautiful than a well-cultivated field.

Cicero

The ant itself is a wise creature, but the garden is an enemy.

Bacon F.

All nature strives for self-preservation.

Cicero

... Nature is never deceived ... Any fake is hated by nature, and the best thing is that which is not distorted either by science or art.)

Erasmus of Rotterdam.

He who does not love nature does not love man, he is not a citizen.

Dostoevsky F. M.

The birth and death of leaves are rapid rotations of that whirlpool whose great circles move slowly among the stars.

Tagore R.

Custom could not overcome nature, for she always remains unconquered.

Cicero.

The tenderness and delight that we experience from the contemplation of nature is a memory of the time when we were animals, trees, flowers, earth. More precisely: it is the consciousness of unity with everything, hidden from us by time.

Tolstoy L.N.

The power of nature is great.

Cicero.

Everything is perfected by nature.

Lucretius.

Established by nature itself.

Seneca.

Earth, nature's mother, is her own grave: what she gave birth to, she buried.

Shakespeare W.

The woman who gives birth is closest to nature: on one side she is even nature itself, and on the other, man himself.

Prishvin M. M.

Grandiose things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free.

Herzen A. I.

In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should do their own thing, and in this wisdom is the highest justice of life.

Leonardo da Vinci.

The study and observation of nature gave rise to science.

Cicero.

Nothing in nature is useless.

Michel Montaigne.

Nature has taken care of everything so much that everywhere you find something to learn.

Leonardo da Vinci.

For others, nature is firewood, coal, ore, or a dacha, or just a landscape. For me, nature is the environment from which, like flowers, all our human talents have grown.

Prishvin M. M.

After all, we know the opinion of the greatest scientists that different branches of knowledge require study and instruction, while nature itself creates the poetic ability, and the poet creates from his own spirit and at the same time, as it were, is inspired from above.

Cicero.

Nature provides enough to satisfy natural needs.

Seneca.

Let's not ... be too deceived by our victories over nature. For each such victory, she takes revenge on us.

Engels F.

Nature releases from bodily bonds by death, as from poverty - by wealth, but from spiritual bonds by one virtue - knowledge, teaching and work.

Epictetus.

Do not kill the one who found a home in the sea, Do not make living four-legged flesh food. Beauties do not need to drink animal milk: How will a robbed udder comfort a child? Do not attack the bird by surprise, do not rob the winged one: Violence is a grave sin that threatens with retribution.

Maarri.

There is nothing more inventive than nature.

Statements / sayings of famous people about nature

"Neither satiety, nor hunger, and nothing else is good if you transgress the measure of nature"

“The doctor heals diseases, but nature heals”

Hippocrates (born around 460 BC) - ancient Greek physician

Cicero Marcus Tullius - ancient Roman politician and philosopher

“Nature has taken care of everything so much that everywhere you find something to learn”

“In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom is the highest justice of life”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian painter

“You can get to know the nature of your native land either with your own eyes or with the help of a book”

Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich (1711-1765) - Russian scientist

“Like a great artist, nature knows how to achieve great effects with small means”

Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856) - German poet, publicist, critic

"Nature is the creator of all creators"

“Nature has no organs of speech, but creates tongues and hearts through which it speaks and feels”

"Nature is the only book that contains deep content on all its pages"

“Nature is always right; but errors and errors come from people.”

“The plays of nature are always new, because each time there are new audiences”

“God forgives and people forgive. Nature never forgives

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832) - German poet, thinker

“Not what you think, nature:

Not a cast, not a soulless face -It has a soul, it has freedom,It has love, it has a language ... "

Tyutchev Fedor Ivanovich (1803 -1873) - Russian poet

“Great things are done by grandiose means. Nature alone does great things for free"

“All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; they aspire to it, they fall into it like into the ocean.

“In nature, nothing arises instantly and nothing appears in the light in a completely finished form”

Herzen Alexander Ivanovich (1812-1870) - Russian writer, philosopher

"Humanity on Earth and the surrounding living and inanimate nature constitute something unified, living according to the general laws of nature"

“Man made a huge mistake when he thought that he could separate himself from nature and disregard its laws”

Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich (1863-1945) - Russian scientist

"Love for one's native country begins with love for nature"

“Understanding nature, humane, careful attitude towards it is one of the elements of morality, a particle of the worldview”

Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich (1892-1968) - Russian writer.

“A man, not being clothed with beneficent nature, received from above the gift of tailoring”

"Man! Raise your eyes from the earth to the sky - what, worthy of amazement, is the order there!

"Wind is the breath of nature"

Kozma Prutkov - the collective pseudonym of Alexei Tolstoy and the brothers Alexei, Vladimir and Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov

“Perhaps God created the desert so that man would smile at the trees”

Coelho Paulo (b. 1947) - Brazilian prose writer, poet

“Nature obeys only those who themselves obey it”

"Nature is conquered only by obeying its laws"

Bacon, Francis (1561 - 1626) - English philosopher

"I live and breathe nature,

Inspirational and simple writing,

Dissolving the soul in simplicity,

I live on earth in beauty"

I. Severyanin