Quotes about nature
nature woods ifs
What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me. John Cage
nature requires
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
nature thinking people
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. James Taylor
nature fun people
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James Thurber
nature agency law
God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, which correspond to the physical element in us, do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond. James Martineau
nature children thinking
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays. Norton Juster
nature land contentment
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? Ellen Glasgow
nature mirrors divinity
Nature is the mirror of divinity. Ellen G. White
nature pain heart
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Erasmus Darwin
nature law house
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!
nature flower animal
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.
nature home gardening
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. Emily Dickinson
nature smart butterfly
In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
nature flower careers
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
nature tree hemlock
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
nature sometimes caught
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
nature kings spring
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
nature adversity writing
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
nature men forever
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. Ellsworth Huntington
nature spring contentment
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters
nature dirty men
November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud. Edward Thomas
nature real light
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. Edward Steichen
nature intelligent men
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. Edward Thorndike
nature wheels common
It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.
nature thinking ideas
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
nature thinking law
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. Edward Tufte
nature law differences
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
nature power men
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. Hermann Hesse
nature doors body
Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors. Henry Van Dyke
nature real animal
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
nature conceited self
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
nature flower fall
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
nature natural permanent
The natural alone is permanent.