Quotes about nature
nature important quality
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Jim Fowler
nature animal skeletons
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone. Jeremy Jackson
nature eye escaping
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. Jean-Paul Sartre
nature roots profound
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
nature lying eye
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes... George Sand
nature science people
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them. Herbert Read
nature brother zoos
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother. Evan Esar
nature children stupid
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple. Eugene Delacroix
nature unity parts-of-a-whole
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
nature father moon
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. Ernest Hemingway
nature math law
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
nature taken mortality
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. Gretel Ehrlich
nature spring june
June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.
nature invites
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
nature men lakes
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. Gil Scott-Heron
nature healthy facts
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? Harriet Martineau
nature science natural
Education is only second to nature. Horace Bushnell
nature gold lines
Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold. Ian Anderson
nature keys mind
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain. Hugh Miller
nature way pitchforks
If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back. Horace
nature foolish pitchforks
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
nature pitchforks nevertheless
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
nature harmony discord
Nature is harmony in discord.
nature earth quintessence
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. Hannah Arendt
nature law accomplished
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity. Gottfried Leibniz
nature discovery advantage
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
nature firsts fierce
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. Giambattista Vico
nature men insanity
All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
nature enthusiasm inspired
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.
nature law purpose
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
nature names mind
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
nature cheer water
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. George Berkeley
nature mean simple
Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.