Quotes about nature
nature pieces slip tacky taken version
All those midriff-baring pieces have taken on a tacky nature. A slip is the new pristine version of sexiness.
nature men perfection
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. Eric Hoffer
nature compassion punishment
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. Eric Hoffer
nature ambition tilt
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape. Eric Hoffer
nature mistake men
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. Eric Hoffer
nature men goal
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. Eric Hoffer
nature men self
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. Eric Hoffer
nature boys equality
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Eric Berne
nature law mankind
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. Luc de Clapiers
nature art operations
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. Louis Pasteur
nature farewell woods
There is pleasure in the pathless woods. Lord Byron
nature moving science
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. Lord Acton
nature scene wildness
Wildness is my suiting scene. John Clare
nature men thinking
Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us! M. Russell Ballard
nature brother philosophy
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . . Luther Burbank
nature environmental return
We must return to nature and nature's god. Luther Burbank
nature flower sunshine
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank
nature moving lines
Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we. Gloria Steinem
nature crocuses narcissus
Nature is none other than God in all things. Giordano Bruno
nature flames color
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Gerard Manley Hopkins
nature stupidity moron
Nature abhors a moron. H. L. Mencken
nature forgotten danger
What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers. H. L. Mencken
nature elements architecture
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. Guillaume Apollinaire
nature different different-times
Nature has different times. Michael Tippett
nature real trying
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. Michael Tilson Thomas
nature adventure filled-up
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. Ray Bradbury
nature party science
Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory? Rand Paul
nature problem humans
There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble. Ralph Bunche
nature strong writing
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple "I must," then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Then draw near to Nature. Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose. Rainer Maria Rilke
nature winning simple
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance. Rainer Maria Rilke
nature children integrity
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Rainer Maria Rilke
nature tree earth
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Rainer Maria Rilke
nature spring heart
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Rainer Maria Rilke