Quotes about nature
nature roots growth
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit. Henry Ward Beecher
nature enjoyment manly
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
nature wind puff
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
nature garden environmental
All nature wears one universal grin. Henry Fielding
nature has-beens pretension
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. Johann Kaspar Lavater
nature experts life-is
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring soul
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
nature garments visible
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
nature tired entering
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
nature accomplish leap
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
nature taken suffering
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
nature fall arms
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
nature names form
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
nature giving disease
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
nature men errors
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
nature people listening
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
nature fall light
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
nature science order
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
nature flower garden
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy. Khalil Gibran
nature writing sky
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
nature yield profound
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them. Napoleon Hill
nature discovery order
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. Northrop Frye
nature love-is hills
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. Norman MacCaig
nature progress demand
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. Orison Swett Marden
nature stars flower
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
nature attitude enjoy-life
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
nature royal instinct
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
nature flower blossoming
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
nature men innocence
Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent. Mason Cooley
nature dirty men
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
nature gun power
Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.
nature ideas seems
Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.
nature way deviance
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.