Quotes about nature
nature people power type
There's always going to be some type of scandal. It's just the nature of people. When you have so much at stake, people are going to use anything in their power to try to win. That's what this is all about.
nature
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction. Jane Velez-Mitchell
nature adventure filled-up
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. Ray Bradbury
nature party science
Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory? Rand Paul
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
nature gossip telephones
Gossip is nature's telephone. Sholom Aleichem
nature reality expectations
Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations. Seth Godin
nature should companion
Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions. Tobias Smollett
nature responsibility individual
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. Rajneesh
nature stars eye
Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.
nature stars ocean
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
nature school curiosity
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. Smiley Blanton
nature may steps
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. John Milton
nature womb graves
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
nature son
And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.
nature hands sea
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
nature travel flight
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired. Noel Coward
nature book air
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale. Miguel de Cervantes
nature important facts
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. Neil deGrasse Tyson
nature travel ocean
I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter. John Muir
nature reality leaving
If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.
nature animal men
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.
nature mountain landscape
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.