Quotes about nature
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 heart men
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. Leo Tolstoy
nature people quality
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
nature art epic
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. Lew Wallace
nature adventure men
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive. Joseph Wood Krutch
nature rotting earth
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
nature men scarcity
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
nature people environmental
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
nature excuse accounts
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
nature animal men
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
nature mean mind
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
nature joy cooking
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
nature storyteller
An old Apache storyteller reminds us Joseph Campbell
nature animal sea
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.
nature art work
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
nature two age
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. John Dryden
nature thinking tree
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me. John Lubbock
nature animal understanding
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding. John Locke
nature stars mistake
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katharine Graham
nature intelligent revolutionary-leaders
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. Joseph Conrad
nature believe moving
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe. Joseph de Maistre
nature honor able
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
nature rain filters
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Leonard Cohen
nature fire heroism
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
nature stars children
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
nature mold broke
Nature made him, and then broke the mold. Ludovico Ariosto
nature years ideas
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon
nature publicity being-the-best
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. Louis D. Brandeis
nature passion long
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. Lord Byron
nature men earth-day
I love not man the less, but Nature more.