Quotes about nature
nature self safety-pins
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal. Jeremy Clarkson
nature father moon
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. Ernest Hemingway
nature math law
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
nature men masters
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature. Henry Miller
nature men emotion
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. Henri Bergson
nature real order
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it. . . .
nature soul landscape
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail. Henri Frederic Amiel
nature greatness house
Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.
nature loss men
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. Helen Keller
nature sides priceless
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
nature garden luxury
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
nature desire way
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.
nature order ideas
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
nature literature privacy
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot
nature sunshine labor
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
nature law accomplished
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity. Gottfried Leibniz
nature discovery advantage
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
nature firsts fierce
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. Giambattista Vico
nature ideas america
The national park is the best idea America ever had. James Bryce
nature feelings natural
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural. Isaac Asimov
nature law conformity
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. Immanuel Kant
nature fate answers
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
nature unity causes
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
nature order chaos
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.
nature law chaos
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
nature reason humans
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
nature thinking space
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. Jim Fowler
nature important quality
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
nature animal skeletons
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone. Jeremy Jackson
nature eye escaping
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. Jean-Paul Sartre
nature roots profound
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
nature lying eye
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes... George Sand
nature creating impossible
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Jerome K. Jerome