Quotes about nature
nature believe law
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France
nature men he-man
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
nature evil literature
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
nature believe healing
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank
nature believe simple
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
nature mess
Mess with nature and it will mess right back ... Anita Roddick
nature climbing silence
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. Ansel Adams
nature fighting government
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
nature woods today
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
nature sunshine light
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte
nature stars ocean
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll. Amos Bronson Alcott
nature matter
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
nature fall decay
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out. Anne Sexton
nature jewels important
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
nature blessed night
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course. Anne Rice
nature persons
There's no such thing as a grown up person. Andre Malraux
nature children men
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
nature punishment pharaohs
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. Ambrose Bierce
nature science admonition
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
nature kings hands
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
nature cat circles
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
nature insomnia novelists
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis").
nature science brain
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
nature book balance
Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books. Alison Lurie
nature book thinking
I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split. Andrea Dworkin
nature temples earth
All nature is the temple; earth the altar. Alphonse de Lamartine
nature men heaven
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
nature thugs
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. John McCarthy
nature normally people
Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet. Kristin Armstrong
nature flower perfect
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen
nature eye fancy
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
nature humility ravens
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. Janine Benyus
nature thinking perspective
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.