Quotes about nature
nature punishment faults
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley
nature majestic-beauty shapes
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.
nature kissing night
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
nature odds want
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! Paul Taylor
nature play levels
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. Paul Watzlawick
nature track trying
Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.
nature morning purple
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory. Mary McLeod Bethune
nature sea facts
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery ... Mary Oliver
nature stars voice
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
nature tree
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
nature land faithful
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. Pope John Paul II
nature emotional inspire
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things... Piet Mondrian
nature humanity renewal
There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself. Pope Francis
nature couple church
The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.
nature struggle priorities
It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.
nature men faults
I don't know if it is all (man's fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
nature taken men
I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
nature environment creation
Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
nature choices may
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. Rachel Carson
nature healing wilderness
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
nature ocean sea
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
nature children humanity
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
nature children years
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
nature future character
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
nature philosophy men
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
nature heart night
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. Nathaniel Hawthorne
nature children roots
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
nature trying nonsense
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
nature feelings may
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.
nature climbing mountain
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
nature stars moon
We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
nature lying law
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law. Elisha Gray
nature order may
In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal. John Burroughs