Quotes about nature
nature pain heart
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Erasmus Darwin
nature law house
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!
nature flower animal
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.
nature home gardening
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. Emily Dickinson
nature smart butterfly
In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
nature flower careers
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
nature tree hemlock
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
nature sometimes caught
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
nature kings spring
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
nature adversity writing
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
nature men forever
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. Ellsworth Huntington
nature spring contentment
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters
nature flower fall
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
nature natural permanent
The natural alone is permanent.
nature breathing spirit
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
nature keys air
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
nature wall idols
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.
nature rain struggle
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
nature time spring
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.
nature men instruction
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. Henri Rousseau
nature work artist
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. Henri Poincare
nature philosophical purpose
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
nature people bird
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. Henrik Ibsen
nature real ocean
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being. Henri Nouwen
nature memorable men
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. Helen Rowland
nature morning spring
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun... Heinrich Heine
nature transition poet
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
nature flower smell
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
nature heart mind
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind. Henry Walter Bates
nature accustomed
Nature is accustomed to hide itself. Heraclitus
nature nature-love
Nature loves to hide.
nature rain adventure
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher
nature flower garden
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.