Michel de Montaigne Quotes

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

Nature knows best.

Nature is a beautiful thing - it does what it needs to do when it needs to do it.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

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

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

Nature is perfect.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.