Quotes about nature
nature art should
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature. Michel de Montaigne
nature kids differences
Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference. Michael Gurian
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 events splendid
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid. Gertrude Stein
nature glasses flames
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. Harry Hill
nature creative mind
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann
nature flower philosophical
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen
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 growing-up animal
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. Miles Franklin
nature rain sunshine
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison
nature purpose doe
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
nature fall confusion
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
nature literature weakness
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
nature fall animal
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
nature simple delight
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
nature delight cry
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
nature anger evil
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
nature miracle quality
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
nature book reading
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges