Quotes about nature
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. Rachel Carson
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 jobs thinking
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. Terri Windling
nature time flower
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. Tennessee Williams
nature stuff vacuums
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
nature animal people
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ... Temple Grandin
nature work
the comprehensive nature of the work that they do.
nature
The competitive nature comes out down the stretch.
nature butterfly apples
I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me. Richard Le Gallienne
nature failing following
We cannot fail in following nature. Michel de Montaigne
nature rivers earth-day
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
nature habit
Habit is second nature.
nature kindness animal
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.
nature law action
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.
nature art should
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.
nature motherhood artist
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. Frank Lloyd Wright
nature inspiration principles
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
nature mean
Nature means Necessity. Philip James Bailey
nature seems courses
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
nature art men
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
nature science world
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. Peter De Vries
nature males undeserving
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. Lisa Kleypas
nature men echoes
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind. John Updike
nature play giving
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. John Stuart Mill
nature law political
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.
nature solitude natural
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
nature growing-up animal
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. Miles Franklin
nature rain sunshine
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison
nature purpose doe
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
nature fall confusion
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
nature literature weakness
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
nature fall animal
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.