All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Nature”

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”
“The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.”
“Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.”
“There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.”
“People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.”
“Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.”
“The unnatural, that too is natural.”
“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”
“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”
“Nature is the living, visible garment of God.”
“Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.”
“Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.”
“Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.”

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