Quotes about nature
nature roots growth
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit. Henry Ward Beecher
nature enjoyment manly
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments. Henry Ward Beecher
nature wind puff
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory. Henry Ward Beecher
nature garden environmental
All nature wears one universal grin. Henry Fielding
nature has-beens pretension
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. Johann Kaspar Lavater
nature experts life-is
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring soul
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature garments visible
Nature is the living, visible garment of God. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature tired entering
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature accomplish leap
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature taken suffering
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature fall arms
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature names form
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature giving disease
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature men errors
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature people listening
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature fall light
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature science order
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature law rose
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature artist interesting
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature art degrees
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring rain
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature progress development
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature artist slave
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature secret midst
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature book important
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature science connections
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature names crime
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Emma Goldman
nature flower sea
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea. John James Ingalls
nature becoming grew
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. John James Audubon
nature superiors
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities. John James Audubon
nature children father
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. John James Audubon
nature woods wonder-of-nature
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. John Heywood