Quotes about nature
nature grandchildren tree
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith
nature independent self
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence. Peter Coyote
nature color green-world
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
nature land space
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Rabindranath Tagore
nature stars simple
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
nature men artist
For man is by nature an artist.
nature flower butterfly
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
nature animal people
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ... Temple Grandin
nature hate monopoly
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature taken knowledge
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
nature book knowledge
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
nature morning stars
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
nature knowledge communicate
We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
nature rays atoms
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
nature kingdoms
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
nature faithful faithfulness
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
nature break
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
nature drinking saint
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
nature morning wrinkles
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
nature travel doors
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
nature science two
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
nature wealth
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
nature secret
Nature tells every secret once.
nature breasts
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.
nature selfish people
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
nature character hair
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
nature asylums terror
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
nature saint odd
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .
nature fall color
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.
nature men dust
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
nature essentials
Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
nature white sugar
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
nature deities saturated
Nature is saturated with Deity.