Quotes about nature
nature men raw-materials
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature sunset men
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
nature home rome
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.
nature ministry apparitions
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
nature elements savages
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
nature wind weather
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
nature morning wrinkles
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
nature looks landscape
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature power doe
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
nature law names
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
nature hate calculators
Nature hates calculators.
nature perfection crystals
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
nature clouds steadfast
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
nature men tongue
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
nature health garden
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
nature mean science
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
nature goal mind
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. Les Brown
nature recognize unlikely
Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast. Jamais Cascio
nature beauty-and-love inseparable
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. Anna Jameson
nature twenties alive
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?
nature self true-beauty
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves). Stephen Jay Gould
nature persistent
Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.
nature compassion interesting
Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?
nature fighting winning
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
nature quebec seeing tougher traded
It was tougher seeing Foote and Pete go because I was with them for so long, ... I've had a lot of friends in Quebec and a lot of friends here (in Colorado) that got traded away or retired. That's just the nature of sports. Joe Sakic
nature
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
nature relax rhythm since slower
I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.
nature wonderful
The wonderful thing about nature is its resilience,
nature suspicious
We just started our investigation, ... The SBI is here now, and it is suspicious in nature. Larry Johnson
nature serious trying
When allegations of such a serious nature have been made, they need to be probed. If nothing comes out, then that will be the end of it. We are only trying to find out the truth.
nature producing raw ways
We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.
nature learning evil
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. Richard Dawkins
nature art eye
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. Richard Wilbur