Quotes about nature
nature mean loss
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. May Sarton
nature get-well healing
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. Maya Angelou
nature writing hands
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. Matthew Arnold
nature sky light
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? Matthew Arnold
nature adventure snow
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." Maya Angelou
nature men law
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. Max Beerbohm
nature natural-instinct strongest
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. Max Beerbohm
nature two people
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. Marilynne Robinson
nature
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. Maria Montessori
nature transformed destroyed
in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed. Maria Montessori
nature ducks white
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white. Matsuo Basho
nature rocks cicadas
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock. Matsuo Basho
nature home journey
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho
nature cutting opportunity
No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life. Mary Webb
nature creative gold
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies? Mary Webb
nature silence music-is
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. Mary Webb
nature passion greed
The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own. Mary Webb
nature attitude science
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions. Philip Warren Anderson
nature reality water
Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci
nature flower book
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that? Nikos Kazantzakis
nature thinking tasks
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.' Niels Bohr
nature real essence
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience. Niels Bohr
nature thinking bird
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here. Morris West
nature color effort
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy. John Ruskin
nature cities littles
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. John Ruskin
nature sea two
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. John Ruskin
nature rain sunshine
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
nature men sky
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin
nature sunset science
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. John Ruskin
nature may steps
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. John Milton
nature womb graves
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. John Milton
nature son
And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. John Milton
nature hands sea
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste? John Milton