Quotes about nature
nature breathing spirit
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
nature keys air
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
nature wall idols
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.
nature flower sea
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea. John James Ingalls
nature becoming grew
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. John James Audubon
nature superiors
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
nature children father
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
nature woods wonder-of-nature
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. John Heywood
nature law goal
Nature hath no goal though she hath law. John Donne
nature spring way-forward
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always inching its way forward, change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it. John O'Donohue
nature done environment
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. John Milton
nature air years
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
nature long looks
To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long... John Moffitt
nature science enzymes
So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life. John Desmond Bernal
nature mean desire
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. John Dewey
nature animal purpose
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
nature art drama
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. John Berger
nature heredity-and-environment two
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. John B. S. Haldane
nature mean culture
Culture means control over nature. Johan Huizinga
nature money work
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future. Joan Robinson
nature men mind
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
nature cat garden
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Garrison Keillor
nature fighting democracy
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy. Frank Lloyd Wright
nature requires
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
nature thinking people
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. James Taylor
nature fun people
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James Thurber
nature agency law
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, which correspond to the physical element in us, do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond. James Martineau
nature patriotic angel
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. James Madison
nature memories rose
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie
nature names crime
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Emma Goldman
nature lying law
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things ... subservient to the rule of law. Elisha Gray
nature order may
In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal. John Burroughs
nature sea rivers
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.