Quotes about nature
nature simple delight
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Joseph Addison
nature delight cry
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
nature anger evil
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
nature miracle quality
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
nature book reading
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
nature ddt apples
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. Joni Mitchell
nature understanding inquiry
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
nature storm things-change
Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes. Joan Baez
nature office done
The office of science is not to record possibilities; but to ascertain what nature does ... As far as Darwinism deals with mere arguments of possibilities or even probabilities, without a basis of fact, it departs from the true scientific method and injures science, as most of the devotees of the new ism have already done. Louis Agassiz
nature book years
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.
nature opportunity men
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich is nature in the innermost diversity of her treasures of beauty, order and intelligence.
nature art men
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.
nature prayer breathing
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.
nature phrases pursuit
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? Logan Pearsall Smith
nature heart bird
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. Lois Lowry
nature flower school
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Zedong
nature stars world
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is. John Fowles
nature moving tree
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
nature past squares
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future. John F. Kennedy
nature dirty men
November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud. Edward Thomas
nature real light
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. Edward Steichen
nature intelligent men
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. Edward Thorndike
nature wheels common
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.
nature thinking ideas
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
nature thinking law
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. Edward Tufte
nature law differences
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
nature adversity mountain-peaks
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Gilbert K. Chesterton
nature power men
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Hermann Hesse
nature doors body
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors. Henry Van Dyke
nature real animal
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
nature conceited self
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
nature flower fall
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
nature natural permanent
The natural alone is permanent.