Quotes about nature
nature humorous profound
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert
nature drama wind-blowing
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. Milton Avery
nature artist perception
I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception. Mike Thompson
nature golf garden
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. Nancy Mitford
nature health law
Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to. Ivan Turgenev
nature doors answers
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
nature rights long
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
nature men temples
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
nature care wheels
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel
nature flower sunshine
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch
nature grandmother grandpa
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. Igor Stravinsky
nature technology progress
It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit. Hyman Rickover
nature moving lines
Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we. Gloria Steinem
nature crocuses narcissus
Nature is none other than God in all things. Giordano Bruno
nature flames color
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Gerard Manley Hopkins
nature stupidity moron
Nature abhors a moron. H. L. Mencken
nature forgotten danger
What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.
nature elements architecture
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. Guillaume Apollinaire
nature men humanity
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Georg C. Lichtenberg
nature weakness humans
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
nature simplicity noble
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
nature enough natural
Nature is not natural and that is natural enough. Gertrude Stein
nature flower garden
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. Georgia O'Keeffe
nature eye lines
But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details. Francisco Goya
nature stars flower
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star. Francis Thompson
nature suggest unless
I don't take these things lightly. I don't make allegations of this nature unless there is something to suggest that something smells.
nature
I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either. Gabriel Basso
nature obsessed trying
How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence. John Eccles
nature practice office
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. Hubert H. Humphrey
nature earth-life space
As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.
nature flower toads
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. Honore de Balzac
nature giving enchantment
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.
nature doe deceiving
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.