Quotes about nature
nature elements architecture
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. Guillaume Apollinaire
nature men humanity
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Georg C. Lichtenberg
nature weakness humans
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
nature simplicity noble
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
nature enough natural
Nature is not natural and that is natural enough. Gertrude Stein
nature flower garden
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. Georgia O'Keeffe
nature eye lines
But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details. Francisco Goya
nature stars flower
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. Francis Thompson
nature suggest unless
I don't take these things lightly. I don't make allegations of this nature unless there is something to suggest that something smells.
nature
I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either. Gabriel Basso
nature obsessed trying
How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence. John Eccles
nature practice office
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. Hubert H. Humphrey
nature earth-life space
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
nature flower toads
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. Honore de Balzac
nature giving enchantment
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.
nature doe deceiving
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
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 invention lacking
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci
nature travel eye
Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
nature travel differences
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.
nature travel variation
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.
nature travel home
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
nature travel sea
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea...
nature travel giving
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.
nature travel air
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.
nature air water
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.