Quotes about nature
nature ideas america
The national park is the best idea America ever had. James Bryce
nature feelings natural
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural. Isaac Asimov
nature law conformity
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. Immanuel Kant
nature fate answers
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. Immanuel Kant
nature unity causes
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences. Immanuel Kant
nature order chaos
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. Immanuel Kant
nature law chaos
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. Immanuel Kant
nature reason humans
Human reason is by nature architectonic. Immanuel Kant
nature growing-up animal
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. Miles Franklin
nature rain sunshine
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison
nature purpose doe
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. Joseph Addison
nature fall confusion
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. Joseph Addison
nature literature weakness
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison
nature fall animal
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. Joseph Addison
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. Joseph Addison
nature anger evil
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer. Joseph Addison
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. Joseph Addison
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 law rose
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature artist interesting
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature art degrees
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring rain
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature progress development
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature artist slave
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature secret midst
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature book important
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature science connections
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature greatness way
I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it. Jimmy Carter
nature law suffering
We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature. Jimmy Carter
nature art science
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences. John Cage