Nearness to nature ... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

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

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

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

Oh ihr Sterblichen, ihr seid nicht verlassen, die Natur lebt noch!

Rilke recommended that when life became turbulent and troublesome, it was wise to stay close to one simple thing in nature.

‘Natural rights’...[is not] a true way of putting things—and certainly not the most useful and fertile way. Nature [is] simply the mastery of the strongest [and confers no rights on man]. Two savage tribes contend for a tract of land of wh. they are in need for their subsistence: nature gave the right to this land to the tribe wh. was strong enough to thrash the other. No right is worth a straw apart from the good that it brings: and all claims to rights must depend—not upon nature—but upon the good that the said rights are calculated to bring to the greatest number. General utility, public expediency, the greatest happiness of the greatest number—these are the tests and standards of a right; not the dictate of nature.

I took new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like this one may get closest to Nature, and subsist upon what she gives of her own free will. There have been no drudging, heavy-shod ploughmen to overturn the soil, and vex it into yielding artificial crops. Here one has to take just what Nature is pleased to give, whether one is a yellow-bird or a human being.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Not everyone’s nature is golden and green
And you can’t fight what’s in your nature

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

We must not let our oppression deny us the earth.