Quotes about nature
nature sex believe
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing. D. H. Lawrence
nature flower roots
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
nature kissing nymphs
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
nature tree sunlight
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
nature pedants culture
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. Confucius
nature responsibility jewish-tradition
The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation. David Geffen
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 fall light
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist. Dag Hammarskjold
nature animal body
When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.
nature brother stars
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
nature looks down-and
When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working... Claude Monet
nature eye understood
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.
nature travel fate
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
nature proud linear
My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself. Cynthia Weil
nature men thinking
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. Cyrano de Bergerac
nature men literature
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. Cyril Connolly
nature ideas gains
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.
nature world woods
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned Cormac McCarthy