Quotes about nature
nature enough fortune
If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature. Mason Cooley
nature color delight
the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ... Mary Augusta Ward
nature old-testament testament
Nature is God's Old Testament. Theodore Parker
nature nice butterfly
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
nature toads bats
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin. Theodore Roethke
nature attitude flower
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
nature children law
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play. Theodore Roosevelt
nature soul grace
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. Johannes Tauler
nature science simplicity
Nature uses as little as possible of anything. Johannes Kepler
nature money ignorance
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams
nature science technology
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski
nature cutting feet
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. Louise Erdrich
nature patriotic angel
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. James Madison
nature memories rose
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie
nature names crime
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Emma Goldman
nature flower sea
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea. John James Ingalls
nature becoming grew
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. John James Audubon
nature superiors
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
nature children father
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
nature woods wonder-of-nature
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. John Heywood
nature work
the comprehensive nature of the work that they do.
nature
The competitive nature comes out down the stretch.
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.
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.
nature tree earth
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
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.
nature people joy
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. Michael Pollan
nature verbs passive
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
nature cutting thinking
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day. Michael Leunig
nature trying environmental
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. Sidney Sheldon
nature numbers compromise
Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment. Sidney Poitier