Quotes about nature
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.
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.
nature simple delight
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
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.
nature anger evil
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
nature males undeserving
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. Lisa Kleypas
nature men echoes
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind. John Updike
nature play giving
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. John Stuart Mill
nature law political
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.
nature solitude natural
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
nature men blue
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world. James Jeans
nature advice research
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
nature men worn
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. James Russell Lowell
nature flower heaven
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
nature path
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
nature heart blood
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
nature world extinction
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. James Hansen
nature burning amazon
The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore. Larry Gelbart
nature children environment
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. Leslie Stephen
nature men flames
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture. Friedrich Schiller
nature cutting feet
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. Louise Erdrich
nature men gender
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry Adams
nature humanity study
The proper study of mankind is woman.
nature morning sun
Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
nature house answers
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. Henry Beston
nature joy machines
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.
nature integrity animal
When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.
nature men humanity
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
nature house balance
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.
nature struggle forgotten-things
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
nature travel hands
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau
nature garden animal
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.