Quotes about nature
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. Ansel Adams
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 men easy
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. Alice Meynell
nature moon apples
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.
nature selfish years
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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 father joy
All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself. Alexander MacLaren
nature eye angel
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing. Alexander Pope
nature next atoms
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
nature ocean eye
[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.
nature children law
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
nature men use
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
nature science night
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
nature exercise imagination
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
nature children fur
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
nature tree robes
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
nature school fool
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
nature tongue advantage
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
nature pain fate
The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life. Albert Schweitzer