Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825 - 1921)
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Parts of Animals
Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White (1899 - 1985)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers