Quotes about nature
nature ties faults
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us. Marcus Aurelius
nature benefits whole
Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
nature philosophical men
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
nature attitude eye
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. Marc Chagall
nature men laughing
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. Thomas A. Edison
nature glory screens
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature player men
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
nature spirit made
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
nature book taken
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
nature men related
A man is related to all nature.
nature science law
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
nature garden tree
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
nature fighting ifs
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey. Simon Bolivar
nature flower dark
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein
nature animal people
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth. Sy Montgomery
nature children animal
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?
nature internals
External nature is only internal nature writ large. Swami Vivekananda
nature natural glorious
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious. Thomas Traherne
nature names purpose
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. Thomas Szasz
nature educational men
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. Thomas Jefferson
nature men impossible-things
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt. Robert Boyle
nature looks preservation
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
nature memories reality
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison
nature native-american owl
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. Tom Brown, Jr.
nature miracle spirituality
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature. Sylvia Fraser
nature sky way
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Rumi
nature rain moon
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque. Thomas Merton
nature lying
Nature admits no lie. Thomas Carlyle
nature men humanity
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
nature parliament newspaper-reporters
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
nature essence breathing
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
nature our-relationship
Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature. Stephen Harper
nature wilderness enough
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.