Quotes about nature
nature order my-family
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order. James Cagney
nature wall blue
Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea. Jacques Yves Cousteau
nature
We must go and see for ourselves.
nature travel ocean
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
nature moving tonight
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board Gary Snyder
nature order kind
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
nature home earth
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
nature moving space
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased. Gaston Bachelard
nature science vacuums
Nature abhors a vacuum. Francois Rabelais
nature conclusion incomplete
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Christopher Fry
nature art men
Art is man added to Nature. Francis Bacon
nature understanding subtlety
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
nature science overcoming
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
nature changing-environment conservation
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
nature book firsts
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow. George Washington Cable
nature teaching able
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us. George Washington Carver
nature honor form
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
nature fall believe
I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.
nature book fall
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
nature noble youth
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. George Santayana
nature firsts provoking
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
nature men answers
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
nature soul conformity
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
nature animal golden
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. Fyodor Dostoevsky
nature freedom envy
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
nature law goal
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning. Friedrich Nietzsche
nature science circles
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
nature lying knowledge
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
nature science hermeneutics
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. Franz Grillparzer
nature decision principles
Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision. Jeanette Winterson
nature believe habit
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. Jewel
nature sky umbrella
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. Jerzy Kosinski
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. George Eliot