Quotes about nature
nature home journey
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho
nature cutting opportunity
No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life. Mary Webb
nature creative gold
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?
nature silence music-is
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
nature passion greed
The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.
nature attitude science
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions. Philip Warren Anderson
nature reality water
Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci
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 men blue
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world. James Jeans
nature advice research
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
nature men worn
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. James Russell Lowell
nature flower heaven
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
nature path
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
nature heart blood
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
nature world extinction
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. James Hansen
nature burning amazon
The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore. Larry Gelbart
nature children environment
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. Leslie Stephen
nature men flames
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture. Friedrich Schiller
nature solitude
There is no solitude in nature.
nature ocean swim
No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.
nature men hands
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men. Franklin D. Roosevelt
nature men law
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
nature patriotic air
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
nature science land
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
nature heart air
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. Jon Krakauer
nature law mankind
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. Luc de Clapiers
nature spring break-through
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.
nature kindness men
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Nicolas Chamfort
nature flower book
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that? Nikos Kazantzakis