Quotes about nature
nature philosophy science
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces. Thomas Browne
nature son men
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. Thomas Sydenham
nature
It is my nature to thin where others read.
nature confused effort
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
nature fever instruments
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
nature finals use
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world. Thomas Starr King
nature air eagles
...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around!—Survey The sun-warm heaven... Robert Montgomery
nature wall spring
Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.
nature ocean sky
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll, Or thunder sound,—the champion of the storm!— Then I feel envy for immortal words, The rush of living thought; oh! then I long To dash my feelings into deathless verse, That may administer to unborn time, And tell some lofty soul how I have lived A worshipper of Nature and of Thee!
nature lying fate
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live. Robert Kennedy
nature business simplicity
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman
nature travel flower
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
nature ease standing
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
nature stars believe
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
nature animal leaves-of-grass
This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...
nature sleep air
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
nature children hands
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
nature healing thinking
I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control. Roseanne Barr
nature grateful thinking
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that? Robert Wright
nature flower balls
Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.
nature pain men
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. Robert Trout
nature forests hills
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
nature rain animal
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals. Samuel Johnson
nature men envy
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
nature world novelty
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. Richard Leakey
nature joy earth
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy. Richard Louv
nature children creativity
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
nature children knowing
Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment.
nature joy wonder
There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.
nature hearing seeing
Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing...
nature children real
There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.
nature fields environment
A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.
nature children joy
By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.