Quotes about nature
nature spring contentment
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters
nature dirty men
November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud. Edward Thomas
nature real light
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. Edward Steichen
nature intelligent men
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. Edward Thorndike
nature wheels common
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.
nature thinking ideas
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
nature thinking law
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. Edward Tufte
nature law differences
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
nature power men
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Hermann Hesse
nature doors body
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors. Henry Van Dyke
nature real animal
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
nature conceited self
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
nature flower fall
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
nature natural permanent
The natural alone is permanent.
nature breathing spirit
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.
nature keys air
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
nature wall idols
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.
nature rain struggle
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
nature time spring
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.
nature men instruction
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. Henri Rousseau
nature work artist
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. Henri Poincare
nature philosophical purpose
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
nature people bird
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. Henrik Ibsen
nature real ocean
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being. Henri Nouwen
nature memorable men
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. Helen Rowland
nature morning spring
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun... Heinrich Heine
nature transition poet
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
nature flower smell
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
nature heart mind
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind. Henry Walter Bates
nature accustomed
Nature is accustomed to hide itself. Heraclitus
nature nature-love
Nature loves to hide.
nature rain adventure
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher
nature flower garden
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.