„p>Nature is what we see,The Hill, the Afternoon—Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee,Nay—Nature is Heaven.Nature is what we hear,The Bobolink, the Sea—Thunder, the Cricket—Nay,—Nature is Harmony.Nature is what we knowBut have no art to say,So impotent our wisdom isTo Her simplicity.
— Emily Dickinson

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„We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.“
— Werner Heisenberg
„God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright
„We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?“
— Stephen Hawking
„They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting. I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Velasquez left us his idea of the people of his epoch. Undoubtedly they were different from what he painted them, but we cannot conceive a Philip IV in any other way than the one Velasquez painted…“
— Pablo Picasso
„p>This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me —The simple News that Nature told —With tender MajestyHer Message is committedTo Hands I cannot see —For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen —Judge tenderly — of Me
— Emily Dickinson