Quotes about nature
nature oil government
We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation. Stephen Harper
nature realization satisfaction
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction. Sigmund Freud
nature self-esteem creative-visualization
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. Shakti Gawain
nature want ugly
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg
nature men class
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O! Robert Burns
nature law looks
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change. Robert Burns
nature fool
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. Robert Browning
nature exploration cease
We shall not cease from exploration T. S. Eliot
nature struggle men
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. T. S. Eliot
nature sea way
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm. Sylvia Earle
nature children milk
When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. Suzanne Somers
nature america progress
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. Susan Sontag
nature gun people
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. Susan Sontag
nature eye science
Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs. Scott Adams
nature men paradise
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. Konrad Lorenz
nature eye tears
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both. Konrad Lorenz
nature heart greatness
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself. Kent Nerburn
nature men circles
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature eye pride
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature balance genius
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature used symbols
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature ocean men
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature ambition hot
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature jesus heaven
The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature sadness men
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men humanity
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature eggs clouds
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men broken
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature fear children
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature goodness turns
Nature turns all malfaisance to good. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature jesus humility
The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature creativity simple
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature expression clouds
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant. Ralph Waldo Emerson