Quotes about nature
nature servant-of-god tree
He who plants a tree is a servant of God. Louis L'Amour
nature ocean tree
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. Michael Dolan
nature giving expectations
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it Michael Crichton
nature rainbow forget
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. Mark Twain
nature inspiration cat
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
nature men humanity
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
nature animal men
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
nature men chastity
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
nature spring white
In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones. Mary Baker Eddy
nature mapping attributes
Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes. Martin Farquhar Tupper
nature depth frugality
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.
nature law perfect
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. Marquis de Sade
nature reality creation
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
nature turns seasons
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
nature grace passing-away
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
nature miracle
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
nature men thinking
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things. Nicholas Sparks
nature flower jealous
They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees. John Greenleaf Whittier
nature men wind
Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free. Ovid
nature ideas roots
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. Paul Farmer
nature lying down-and
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow. Marya Mannes
nature customs
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. Mary Wortley Montagu
nature mean men
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
nature design deities
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. Mary Wollstonecraft
nature taken men
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor. Mary Hunter Austin
nature men land
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
nature path infinite-possibilities
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path. Martha Beck
nature science law
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws. Marshall McLuhan
nature failing following
We cannot fail in following nature. Michel de Montaigne
nature rivers earth-day
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
nature habit
Habit is second nature.
nature kindness animal
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
nature law action
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.