Quotes about nature
nature believe ignorance
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Desiderius Erasmus
nature cutting thinking
I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. Clyde Tombaugh
nature granted courses
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
nature way firsts
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. Clarence Day
nature ocean science
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. Elizabeth I
nature rose thorns
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses. Arthur Guiterman
nature men two
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal
nature quality delight
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
nature firsts habit
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
nature reason skeptic
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
nature world bosoms
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
nature time men
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
nature roots mind
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
nature order perfection
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
nature agency secret
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
nature might speak
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.
nature sun deceiving
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
nature miracle grace
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
nature reality men
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
nature motivation ocean
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
nature math garden
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
nature art creating
I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature. William Shakespeare
nature mirrors
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
nature sparks hard
How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
nature eruption strange
Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.
nature weakness sometimes
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
nature
Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending. Nicholas Culpeper
nature proud
We're so proud of the uncompromising nature of this rehabilitation.
nature beast imperialism
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. Che Guevara
nature miracle environmental
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life. Charles Lindbergh
nature years careers
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.
nature accomplishment miracle
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
nature men joy
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. Bliss Carman