Quotes about nature
nature law interesting
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us. Charles Darwin
nature feelings delight
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
nature animal pyramids
We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!
nature ocean reflection
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.
nature lying ifs
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
nature faces origin-of-species
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
nature war animal
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.
nature men light
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
nature people
Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
nature performing touching
It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature. E. O. Wilson
nature occurred point
It also occurred to me, what's the nature of the emergency? They did not point that out.
nature work
I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. Robert Wilson
nature way dimensions
If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways. Edward Witten
nature simplicity physics
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
nature-love consolation
A love of nature is a consolation against failure. Berthe Morisot
nature winter weather
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner
nature passion heart
The passion to explore is at the heart of being human. Carl Sagan
nature years moose
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. Bill Bryson
nature science past
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future). Benoit Mandelbrot
nature challenges patterns
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.
nature player pleasant ripped screamed smooth word
That's the word I always had for him. He had that smooth way about him, that pleasant nature. He never screamed or hollered. And he never ripped a player because he didn't have to. He'd just tell you what he was seeing, and you could make your own opinion. Johnny Pesky
nature prepared
That's the nature of the game, ... Just be ready, be prepared for anything. And today, pretty much everything happened.
nature science technology
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
nature travel earth
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
nature home intelligent
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place. Barry Lopez
nature tend
Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies. John Collison
nature
That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,
nature similar suicide
similar to the nature of a suicide bomber. Chris Murray
nature secret sublime
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster. Albert Einstein
nature eye doubt
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
nature doe moral
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
nature thinking web-of-life
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
nature imagination environment
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.