Sayings/sayings famous people about nature


    “Neither satiety, nor hunger, nor anything else is good if you exceed the measure of nature”

    “The doctor treats 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 lies the highest justice of life.”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Italian artist

    "Experience nature native land either with your own eyes or with the help of a book.”

Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilievich (1711-1765) – Russian scientist

    "How great artist, nature knows how to achieve great effects with small means.”

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

    "Nature is the creator of all creators"

    “Nature does not have 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; mistakes and delusions come from people.”

    “Nature’s plays are always new, because new audiences appear every time”

    “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 -She has a soul, she has freedom,There is love in it, there is language in it...”

Tyutchev Fedor Ivanovich (1803 -1873) - Russian poet

    “Grandiose things are done with grandiose means. Nature alone makes great things for nothing.”

    “All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; they strive towards it, they flow into it like into the ocean.”

    “In nature, nothing arises instantly and nothing comes into being in a completely ready-made form.”

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

    “Humanity on Earth and the living and living things around it inanimate nature constitute something unified, living according to general laws nature"

    “Man made a huge mistake when he imagined that he could separate himself from nature and ignore its laws.”

Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich (1863-1945) – Russian scientist

    “Love for one’s native country begins with love for nature”

    "Understanding of nature, humane, careful attitude to it is one of the elements of morality, a particle of worldview"

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

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

    "Human! Raise your gaze from the earth to the sky - what an amazing order there is there!”

    "Wind is the breath of nature"

Kozma Prutkov is 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 novelist, poet

    “Nature submits only to those who submit to it”

    “Nature can be conquered only by obeying its laws”

Bacon, Francis (1561 - 1626) - English philosopher

"I live and breathe nature,

I write with inspiration and simplicity,

Dissolving my soul in simplicity,

I live on earth in beauty"

I. Severyanin

Humanity cannot live without generous ideas.

Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.

Without ideals, that is, without at least somewhat defined desires for the best, no good reality can ever emerge.

Immense pride and conceit is not a sign of self-esteem.

Wealth and coarse pleasures give rise to laziness, and laziness gives rise to slaves.

No science can form a society if there is no noble material, a living and good will to live honestly and lovingly.

Science will indicate the benefits and will only prove that it is most profitable to be honest.

Not being surprised by anything is, of course, a sign of stupidity, not intelligence.

But what should I do if I probably know that the deepest egoism lies at the basis of all human virtues? And the more virtuous the deed, the more egoism there is. Love yourself - that's one rule I recognize. Life is a business transaction.

Only that which coincides with your sense of beauty and with the ideal in which you embody it is moral.

Social civil ideals that are not organically connected with moral ideals have never existed, and cannot exist!

He was kind to those to whom he did good, and especially to those to whom he did kindness.

Describing a flower with love for nature contains much more civic feelings than denouncing bribe-takers, because here there is contact with nature, with love for nature.

Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.

You can comprehend and feel correctly and at once, but you cannot become a person at once, but you have to stand out as a person.

The main idea should always be unattainably higher than the possibility of its execution.

Only the war that is undertaken for an idea, for the highest and great principle, and not for material interest, not for greedy seizure, turns out to be useful.

Decent tone is about sincerity and honesty.

Praise is always chaste.

Pierce the heart. This is a deep reasoning, for what does it mean to “pierce the heart”? - Instill morality, a thirst for morality.

Let the jury forgive criminals, but it will be a disaster if the criminals themselves begin to forgive themselves.

Religion is only a formula for morality.

The most serious problems modern man stem from the fact that he has lost the sense of meaningful cooperation with God in His intentions for humanity.

Freedom is not about not restraining yourself, but about being in control of yourself.

Free institutions are good when they are among people who respect themselves, and therefore respect their duty, the duty of a citizen.

Strength needs no abuse.

Voluptuousness causes voluptuousness, voluptuousness causes cruelty.

Society is created by moral principles.

The consciousness of your complete powerlessness to bring at least some benefit to humanity, with the conviction of the suffering of humanity, can even turn in your heart love for humanity into hatred of it.

Contact with nature is the most the last word all progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners.

There is compassion highest form human existence.

Happiness is not in happiness, but only in its achievement.

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.

Only then does the feeling become purified when it comes into contact with the highest beauty, with the beauty of the ideal.

Just to live, live and live! No matter how you live - just live! What a truth! Lord, how true! Scoundrel man! And the one who calls him a scoundrel for this is a scoundrel.

Anyone who wants to see the living God should look for him not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.

Anyone who does not understand his purpose most often lacks self-esteem.

Honest enemies always have more enemies than dishonest ones.

Removal from society is necessary for social truth.

It's amazing what one ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!

Study and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.

Fantasy is a natural force in a person. Without giving it satisfaction, you will either kill it, or, conversely, you will allow it to develop, precisely excessively (which is harmful).

Good thoughts are preferred to brilliant writing. The syllable is, so to speak, the outer garment; thought is the body hiding under clothes.

Human - the whole world, if only the basic impulse in him were noble.

A person is a creature that gets used to everything, and I think this is the best definition of a person.

A person who has not been a child will be a bad citizen.

The more national we are, the more European we will be.

How will you unite people to achieve your civic goals if you do not have a basis in the original great moral idea?

An honest man lives to have enemies.

What is talent? Talent is the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly.

What seems disgraceful to the mind is pure beauty to the heart.

To love in simplicity, you need to know how to show love.

To love each other, you need to fight with yourself.

To act smartly, intelligence alone is not enough.

Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to any duty.

Humor is the wit of deep feeling.

I do not want and cannot believe that evil is the normal state of people.

I am guilty before him, therefore, I must take revenge on him.

I can’t imagine a situation where there would ever be nothing to do.

I absolutely don’t know why life is so short. So as not to get bored, of course, because there is life too piece of art the creator himself in the final and impeccable form of Pushkin’s poem. Brevity is the first condition of artistry. But if anyone is not bored, they should be allowed to live longer.

I read strangely, and reading has a strange effect on me. I read something I re-read a long time ago and it’s as if I’m exerting myself with new strength, I delve into everything, I clearly understand and I myself gain the ability to create.

I do not want a society where I could not do evil, but one where I could do all sorts of evil, but did not want to do it myself.

Ideally, public conscience should say: let us all perish if our salvation depends only on a tortured child - and not accept this salvation.

This is the sign of real art, that it is always modern, vitally useful.

Cheerfulness of a person is an outstanding trait of a person.

Wine brutalizes and brutalizes a person, hardens him and distracts him from bright thoughts, dulls him.

The highest and most characteristic of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.

The highest happiness obliges the soul.

The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what controls him: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas.

Humanity is only a habit, the fruit of civilization. It may completely disappear.

Damn these interests of civilization, and even civilization itself, if to preserve it it is necessary to skin people.

A fool who admits that he is a fool is no longer a fool.

It’s a bad sign when they stop understanding irony, allegory, and jokes.

If you set off towards your goal and start stopping along the way to throw stones at every dog ​​barking at you, you will never reach your goal.

If you want to examine a person and know his soul, then delve not into how he is silent, or how he speaks, or how he cries, or how he is excited by the noblest ideas, but look at him better when he laughs. A person laughs well means he is a good person.

If you want, a person must be deeply unhappy, because then he will be happy. If he is constantly happy, he will immediately become deeply unhappy.

There are moments when people love crime.

There are three kinds of scoundrels in the world: naive scoundrels, that is, convinced that their meanness is the highest nobility, scoundrels who are ashamed of their own meanness with the inevitable intention of finishing it, and, finally, simply scoundrels, purebred scoundrels.

Life is boring without a moral goal, it is not worth living just to eat, the worker knows this - therefore, life requires a moral occupation.

The idea of ​​immortality is life itself, living life, its final formula and the main source of truth and right consciousness for humanity.

It is more profitable to have someone among your enemies than among your friends.

Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.

Art never left man, always met his needs and his ideal, always helped him in finding this ideal - it was born with man, developed alongside his historical life.

Honor disappears - the formula of honor remains, which is tantamount to the death of honor.

Every person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.

What's the difference between a demon and a human? Goethe's Mephistopheles says: “I am part of that part of the whole that wants evil but does good.” Alas! A person could say the exact opposite about himself.

He who is easily inclined to lose respect for others, first of all, does not respect himself.

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

Anyone who wants to be useful can do an abyss of Good even with literally tied hands.

Only scoundrels lie.

He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches such a point that he no longer discerns any truth either in himself or around him, and therefore begins to disrespect both himself and others.

Only through labor and struggle is identity and self-esteem achieved.

Only by mastering the original material as perfectly as possible, that is, native language, we will be able to master a foreign language as perfectly as possible, but not before.

The best people are recognized by the highest moral development and the highest moral influence.

Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates ourselves.

The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true, for which it sighs.

Alms corrupt both the giver and the taker, and moreover, it does not achieve its goal, because it only increases beggary.

Is it possible to love everyone, all people? Of course not, and even unnatural. In abstract love for humanity, you almost always love only yourself.

We should not be proud of children, we are worse than them. And if we teach them something to make them better, then they make us better by our contact with them.

That's what the mind is for, to achieve what you want.

We must love life more than the meaning of life.
The strong are not the best, but the honest ones. Honor and self-esteem are the strongest.

Do not demand the rights of humanity, otherwise you will be the first to call on the law for help.

It is not enough to define morality by adherence to one's beliefs. We must constantly raise the question within ourselves: are my beliefs true?

Absurdities are too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and without them, perhaps nothing at all would have happened in it.

You can't love what you don't know!

You will pass through the world by untruth, but you will not return back.

There is no higher idea than to sacrifice your own life in defense of your brothers and your fatherland.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than straightforwardness and nothing easier than flattery.

There is no happiness in inaction.

  • Let us not... be too deluded by our victories over nature. For every such victory she takes revenge on us.Engels F.
  • There are many wonderful forces in nature, but stronger than man- No.Sophocles
  • Nature... awakens in us the need for love...Ivan Turgenev
  • The great book of nature is open to everyone, and in this great book so far... only the first pages have been read.Dmitry Pisarev
  • Nature is dispassionate towards man; she is neither his enemy nor his friend; It is either a convenient or an inconvenient field for his activities.Nikolai Chernyshevsky
  • A person has quite enough objective reasons to strive to preserve wild nature. But, ultimately, only his love can save nature.Jean Dorst
  • God was quite successful with nature, but with man he misfired.Jules Renard
  • The most beautiful thing in nature is the absence of humans.Bliss Pocket
  • One of the most complex tasks modernity - the problem of slowing down the process of destruction of living nature...Archie Carr
  • There is nothing more beautiful than a well-cultivated field.Cicero
  • We must not allow people to direct to their own destruction those forces of nature that they were able to discover and conquer.F. Joliot-Curie
  • Nature, having created people as they are, gave them great consolation from many evils, endowing them with family and homeland.Hugo Foscolo
  • Without the belief that nature is subject to laws, there can be no science.Norbert Wiener
  • Good nature has taken care of everything so much that everywhere you find something to learn.Leonardo da Vinci
  • The closest thing to the Divine in this world is nature.Astolphe de Custine
  • In an immoral society, all inventions that increase man’s power over nature are not only not good, but undoubted 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 to each other, and there is nothing random in it. And if a random phenomenon occurs, look for a person’s hand in it.Mikhail Prishvin
  • In nature, nothing is lost except nature itself.Andrey Kryzhanovsky
  • All the best in nature belongs to everyone together.Petronius
  • All living things are afraid of torment, all living things are afraid of death; recognize yourself not only in man, but in every living creature, do not kill and do not cause suffering and death.Buddhist wisdom
  • In his tools man has power over external nature, whereas for his own purposes he is rather subordinate to her.Georg Hegel
  • In the old days, the richest countries were those whose nature was most abundant; Today the richest countries are those in which people are most active.Henry Buckle
  • Until people listen to the common sense of nature, they will be forced to obey either dictators or the opinion of the people.Wilhelm Schwebel
  • The one who is not happy with what happens according to the laws of nature is stupid.Epictetus
  • They say one swallow does not make spring; But is it really because one swallow does not make spring that the swallow that already feels spring should not fly, but wait? Then every bud and grass will have to wait, and there will be no spring.Lev Tolstoy
  • Great things are done with great means. Nature alone does great things for nothing.Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
  • Even in his most beautiful dreams, a person cannot imagine anything more beautiful than nature.Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Ideal human nature lies in orthobiosis, i.e. in human development with the goal of achieving a long, active and vigorous old age, leading in the final period to the development of a sense 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 is a bad citizen.Fedor Dostoevsky
  • Whoever looks at nature superficially easily gets lost in the boundless “Everything,” but whoever listens more deeply to its wonders is constantly brought to God, the Ruler of the world.Karl de Geer
  • There is nothing more inventive than nature.Mark Cicero
  • The fundamental law of nature is the preservation of humanity.John Locke
  • Let us thank wise nature for making what is necessary easy and what is heavy unnecessary.Epicurus
  • Nature will always take its toll.William Shakespeare
  • Nature is the house in which man lives.Dmitry Likhachev
  • Nature has put into man some innate instincts, such as hunger, sexual feelings, etc., and one of the most strong feelings This order is a sense of ownership.Peter Stolypin
  • Nature is always stronger than principles.David Hume
  • Nature is in a 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 thanks to itself; it will exist and operate forever...Paul Holbach
  • Nature, which endowed every animal with the means of subsistence, gave astrology as an assistant and ally to astronomy.Johannes Kepler
  • Nature mocks the decisions and commands 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 knows no stop in its movement and punishes all inactivity.Johann Goethe
  • Nature does not accept jokes, she is always truthful, always serious, always strict; she is always right; mistakes and delusions come from people.Johann Goethe
  • Nature does not tolerate inaccuracies and does not forgive mistakes.Ralph Emerson
  • Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it.Ivan Turgenev
  • Nature submits only to those who submit to it.Francis Bacon
  • Nature offers us its wisdom, rather than forcing it on us. But we are stupid, give us the order to follow wisdom.Fazil Iskander
  • Nature gives birth to people, life buries them, and history resurrects them, wandering over their graves.Vasily Klyuchevsky
  • Human nature is to move forward all the time...Blaise Pascal
  • Nature is everything that is not created by man.Gennady Malkin
  • Nature is the constant conjugation of the verbs “to eat” and “to be eaten.”William Inge
  • The strongest organism breaks down, or at least is worn out and tired, when it uses the various gifts of nature too luxuriously.Dmitry Pisarev
  • The creations of nature are more perfect than the creations of art.Mark Cicero
  • Patience most closely resembles the method by which nature creates its creations.Honore de Balzac
  • What is contrary to nature never leads to good.Friedrich Schiller
  • Man will not become master of nature until he has become master of himself.Georg Hegel
  • Humanity - without being ennobled by animals and plants - will perish, become impoverished, and fall into the rage of despair, like a lonely person alone.Andrey Platonov
  • The more one delves into the actions of nature, the more visible the simplicity of the laws that it follows in its actions becomes.Alexander Radishchev

The nature around us is so fabulous and so fragile... Glorified by writers and poets. Creative people simply cannot help but pay attention to it. We very often do not pay attention to its charm and strength. Therefore, we have prepared beautiful and meaningful quotes about nature to remind you that we are inextricably linked, and that we must take care of nature in order to enjoy its beauty!

Quotes about the beauty of nature

Nature cannot be caught sloppy and half-naked; she is always beautiful.
Ralph Emerson

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

Nature perfects everything.
Lucretius

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

Nature! She is perfect and always creates new things. She is an inexhaustible source of everything living and real. Everything is in her, she is the fullness of being. She is omnipotent and powerful, constantly crushing and constantly creating. All things are in her and she is in everything, and everything is one and the same. It is eternal and endless, feeding the spirit with joy alone.
Spinoza

Nature is the source of beauty that everyone has, from which everyone draws according to their understanding.
Kliment Timiryazev

When will there be in people the same as in nature? There is a struggle there, but it is fair and beautiful. And here is the mean one.
Lev Tolstoy

If every person on a piece of his land did everything he could, how beautiful our land would be.
Anton Chekhov

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

A person becomes better in the lap of nature.
Michael Bulgakov

The beauty that surrounds us gives us so many warm and bright emotions, and in return it asks just a little care, gratitude and respect. And then the world will gladly give us everything he is capable of, give us all his valuable gifts. Quotes about nature are about exactly this.

About the nature of quotes and sayings

All nature, starting from tiny particles it to the greatest bodies, from grains of sand to suns, from protists to man, is in eternal origin and disappearance, in continuous flow, in tireless movement and change.
Friedrich Engels

Nature governs all her creations equally. A person can die as easily as a plant crushed by someone’s heel withers.
Eric Hudspeth

How you relate to nature and animals is how your life will turn out.
Alexander Lukashenko

A person cut off from nature becomes hardened in soul.
Narine Abgaryan

Nature can be conquered only by obeying its laws.
Francis Bacon

Nature can bring you peace and tranquility. This is her gift to you. When you perceive nature and connect with it in this field of silence, then your awareness begins to permeate this field. This is your gift to nature.
Eckhart Tolle

In nature there are no rewards or punishments, but only consequences.
Robert Ingersoll

Nature can do without man, but he cannot do without it.
Ali Absheroni

Trees are the poems that the earth writes in the sky. We knock them down and turn them into paper so we can write down our emptiness on it.
Gibran Kahlil Gibran

Nature sometimes becomes covered with poisonous stains of disgust towards us.
Boris Andreev

When a person looks at the beauty of nature, peace and tranquility come into his heart. Nature fills the human soul with strength, just as rain saturates the earth after a heat wave. This is why people love spending time in nature so much - it gives them energy and health. And that's why beautiful quotes about nature should make you feel positive.

Beautiful words about the world around us

There are landscapes that will make any mortal, even for a moment, feel like a god.

There are enough reasons on earth to be enchanted, but there are few who are enchanted.

There is nothing that is contrary to nature.

Love for nature is a sign of moral health in a person.

Nature is simple and does not luxury with unnecessary reasons.

Observe nature carefully and you will understand everything much better.

Find yourself in the heart of nature, stop your train of thought and look around. And then think again.

It turns out that nature can take everything from us. Everything will belong to her again.

Nature itself decided that weakness is a sin.

We were taught that there is a material world, that man is the king of nature, but he is not a king, he is her child.

The feeling of nature, the desire to live in harmony with it, is reflected in many quotes and aphorisms. Moreover, many of them reflect wise philosophy life, first of all, is to live in harmony with nature. After all, we all came from nature. Nature is within us.

About nature quotes with meaning

When you feel bad, listen to nature. The silence of the world is more soothing than millions of unnecessary words.
Confucius

Art completes what nature cannot complete. The artist gives us the opportunity to understand the unrealized goals of nature.
Aristotle

The study of nature shows how simple and natural the laws it follows are.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature will always take its toll.
William Shakespeare

When nature wants to create something, it creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Emerson

Nature is always right; mistakes and delusions come from people.
Johann Goethe

And a stalk of grass is worthy of the great world in which it grows.
Rabindranath Tagore

We offer quotes about nature. They were collected in the card index of wise thoughts maintained by our library. These sayings and poems were selected from various magazines and newspapers, as well as from Internet resources. Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author.

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

“To live, you need sun, freedom and a small flower.” H.K. A Anderson

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 while visiting.” 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 the moral responsibility for preserving and improving in it (and, consequently, in himself) everything living and beautiful. A.S. Arsenyev

Education only develops a person’s moral powers, but does not give them: nature gives them to a person.V.G. Belinsky

The higher the genius of the poet, the deeper and more extensive he understands nature and the more great success presents it to us in relation to life. Vissarion Belinsky

In every person, nature grows either as grains or as weeds; let him water the first in a timely manner and destroy the second. Francis Bacon

The easiest way to subjugate nature is to obey it. 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

All huge world around me, above me and below me is full unknown secrets. I will open them all my life because it is the most exciting thing in the world. V. Bianchi

A person must draw rules for his behavior from nature if he wants to be completely happy. Buast Pierre

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

Humanity can no longer spontaneously build its 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 united, 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 ignore 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” is the business of everyone. IN AND. Vernadsky

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

The more we take from the world, the less we leave in it, and we will end up having to pay our debts at the very moment that may not be suitable for ensuring the continuation of our lives. Wiener

Water has been 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 lies the highest justice of life. Leonardo da Vinci

There is a book of nature inexhaustible source knowledge for a person. Voltaire

Motherhood cannot be taken from the Earth,

You can’t take it away, just like you can’t scoop up the sea. V. Vysotsky

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

Nature is the best of books, written in a special language. This language needs to 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 beauty

You can only do it with your heart." Gvezdoslav Pavol (1849-1921) – Slovak poet .

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

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

Like a great artist, nature can achieve great effects with small means. G. Heine

Nature never makes mistakes; if she produces a fool, it means she wants it. Heine Show

Herzen A.I.

Nature cannot contradict man unless man contradicts its laws... A.I. Herzen

Great things are done with great means. Nature alone does great things for nothing. A.I. Herzen

All the aspirations and efforts of nature are completed by man; They strive towards it, they fall into it, like into the ocean. A.I. Herzen

In nature, nothing arises instantly and nothing comes into light in a completely ready-made form. A.I. Herzen

We live among nature, we are its friends. She talks to us constantly, but does not reveal 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 whose every page is full of deep content. I.V. Goethe

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

Nature does not have speech organs, but creates tongues and hearts through which she speaks and feels. I.V. Goethe

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

The plays of nature are always new, because each time new audiences appear. I.V. Goethe

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

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

Neither satiety, nor hunger, nor anything else is good if you exceed the measure of nature. Hippocrates

The doctor treats diseases, but nature heals. Hippocrates

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

Pristine nature must be protected no less than we protect Raphael’s paintings, 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 pleases, attracts and inspires only because it is natural. Wilhelm Humboldt

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

If we allow ourselves the freedom of imagination, it may suddenly turn out that animals - our brothers in pain, illness, death, suffering and disasters, our slaves in the hardest work, companions in entertainment - share with us the origin of a common ancestor - and we are all molded from the same clay. C. Darwin

The more we understand the unchanging laws of nature, the more incredible its miracles become for us. C. Darwin

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

The speed with which civilization is developing, and, consequently, the speed with which people are devastating our amazingly beautiful planet, is growing, month after month. It is everyone's duty to try to prevent the terrible desecration of our world, and everyone can make their own contribution, however small, however modest, to this fight. J.Darrell Gerald(English zoologist, animal writer, conservationist and animal activist).

They are the most beautiful

What does nature give us on earth?

That is her priceless gift,

For all arts a flower -

The pattern is unchanged. Jacques Delisle

After all, if only 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 in us?

Everyone secretly values ​​them as a true blessing. Jacques Delisle

Since man acquired the ability to plow,

He felt the urge to decorate the house and yard

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.

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 of someday recognizing all of her. Diderot 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 man's destiny were not the same? Denis Diderot

Will the seas really freeze tomorrow?

Will the birds fall silent, will the pines freeze?

The dawn will no longer be able to rise,

And the sky will ask: “Is it really too late?!” N. Dobronravov

Only that is strong and stable, only that has a future that is made 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, is not a citizen. F.M. Dostoevsky

Take care of these lands, these waters,

Loving even a small epic,

Take care of all animals within nature,

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

It is no coincidence that dew breaks out 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. Yevtushenko

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

A person’s attitude to the environment is already the person himself, his character, his philosophy, his soul, his attitude towards other people. S.P. Zalygin

A person’s behavior in nature is also a mirror of his soul. K.L. Zelinsky

In nature there are no rewards or punishments, but 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 claim 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 that does not already exist in nature in a latent or potential form. Paulo Coelho

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

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

Even in his most beautiful dreams a person 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, emasculated if you like. For example, I don’t believe in it... Any isolation first of all indicates limitations. A physicist who does not perceive poetry and art is a bad physicist. L.D. Landau

Heaven and earth are durable. Heaven and earth are durable because they do not exist for themselves. This is 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, government parliaments and leaders. Yu. 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 the same as it once was and, most likely, will be someday again. M.Yu. Lermontov

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

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

Ecology should not be limited to conservation issues environment. Man 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 sections in ecology: biological ecology and cultural or moral ecology. Non-compliance with the laws of biological ecology can kill a person biologically; non-compliance with cultural ecology can kill a person morally. And there is no gap between them, just as there is no clearly defined boundary between nature and culture. D.S. Likhachev

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

Nature perfects everything. 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 to civilization is paved tin cans A. Moravia

"In your power, in your power,

So that everything doesn't fall apart

To meaningless parts." Martynov L.N.

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

Remains a thinking plant.

Trees and grass are related to him,

Don't be ashamed of this relationship.

Given to you from your birth

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

We cannot expect favors from nature; It’s our job to take them from her. I.V. Michurin

The world is not the environment, but ours the only house, in which we can only live! Humanity 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

There is nothing useless in nature . Michel Montaigne

When a cat and I play, there is still a question of who is playing with whom—me with her or she with me. Michel Montaigne

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

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

Nature can do everything and creates everything. Michel de Montaigne

Only yours and my secret business,

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

There is no need 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 . V. Norbert (American mathematician, "father of cybernetics").

Not isolated white spots - huge ocean 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

Teaches wise nature. V. Orlova

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

You can’t write books and not know what herbs grow in local meadows 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, cloudy or clear skies... K. Paustovsky

Nature will act on us with all its strength only when we bring our human beginning into the feeling of it, when our state of mind, our love, our joy or sadness comes into full harmony 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 thinking about the life lived. K. Paustovsky.

“Nature must be protected, just as we protect people. Descendants will never forgive us for 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 to be one hundred and twenty years old, it is only because one life is not enough to fully experience 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, a humane, caring attitude towards it is one of the elements of morality, a part of the worldview. K. Paustovsky

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

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

All the best in nature belongs to everyone together Petronius

There is no place for personal arbitrariness in the study and conquest of nature; you can’t invent here, you just have to observe and understand, use it from time to time existing forces and unravel from eternity existing connection causes and effects. 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

Since 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 hand, she is man himself. Prishvin M. M.

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

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

That’s why we rejoice when we find ourselves in nature, because here we come to our senses. Prishvin M. M.

Every person in the world has their own unique place and everyone needs to decide on it. If you find him and stand on him, then you yourself will feel good, and people will feel as if that is why you are standing in this place and that you are doing everything only for them. 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 a storehouse of the sun with great treasures of life. For fish - water, for birds - air, for animals - forest, steppe, mountains. But a person needs a homeland, and protecting nature means protecting the homeland. M. Prishvin

Human! Raise your gaze from the earth to the sky - what an amazing order there is there! K. Prutkov

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 universal misfortune, which has never before existed before humanity. V.G. Rasputin

Christ walked on water. If river pollution continues, everyone will soon be able to walk on water.

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

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

It is not nature that needs our protection, it is we who need its protection: fresh air, to breathe, crystal water to drink, all nature to live. N.F. Reimers

"No material goods cannot replace a healthy living environment" N.F. Reimers

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

If we want to achieve some kind of agreement with Nature, then in most cases we will have to accept its conditions. R. Ricklefs

...Forests without birds

and land without water.

Less and less

The surrounding nature.

More -

Environment. R. Rozhdestvensky

There is nothing more inventive than nature.
The wisdom of nature is amazing, which, with such endless diversity, managed to equalize everyone! Erasmus of Rotterdam

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

How I feel sorry for the people about whom

They say that their eyes are gloomy

Sees only bodies of water in lakes,

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

To take care of the Earth, nature, you need to love it, to love it, you need to know it, having learned it, it’s impossible not to love it . A.N.Sladkov

I live and breathe nature,

I write with inspiration and simplicity,

Dissolving my soul in simplicity,

I live on earth in beauty. I. Severyanin

Living happily and living in accordance with nature are the same thing. L.A. Seneca (Jr.)

Nature searches us at the exit, as at the entrance. You can't take out more than you bring. L.A. Seneca (senior)

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

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-Exupéry

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but borrow it from our children. A. de Saint-Exupère

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

Nature is man's friend. And you need to be friends with a friend.
People cannot live without clean air,
clean water, fresh greenery, sun rays,
even without communicating with animals and birds.
These are our fellow countrymen, we live on Earth with them.
And every life requires attention and respect... N. Sladkov