Quotes about nature
nature heart simple
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper. Mikhail Lermontov
nature men age
Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr.
nature kids people
Kids are natural little outdoor people. It is we, the adults, who turn them into indoor people. If you don't get of fyour computer, why should they? Mark Jenkins
nature kids worry
Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.
nature kids responsibility
Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.
nature destiny men
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny. Neil Armstrong
nature war science
Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere. Naomi Klein
nature science views
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination. George Henry Lewes
nature flower reflection
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without? Guru Nanak
nature white burning
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity. H. G. Wells
nature children men
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
nature growing-up kids
Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody. C. Everett Koop
nature kids play
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
nature kids play
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
nature kids thinking
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
nature invention lacking
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci
nature travel eye
Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
nature travel differences
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.
nature travel variation
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.
nature travel home
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
nature travel sea
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea...
nature travel giving
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.
nature travel air
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.
nature air water
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
nature science law
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
nature genius masters
Nature alone is the master of true genius.
nature causes produce
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
nature done way
Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
nature law order
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.
nature mistress guides
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
nature travel eye
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.
nature travel light
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
nature travel art
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.