Awe of Nature Quotes

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

The beginning of wisdom is fear.

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.