Famous Quotes

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

Iris Murdoch on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Iris Murdoch

• "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

• "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

• "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

• "We can only learn to love by loving."

• "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."