Quotes about nature
nature memories reality
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison
nature native-american owl
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. Tom Brown, Jr.
nature moon light
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of sea, Stability of earth, Firmness of rock. Saint Patrick
nature views trials
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed. Ronald Fisher
nature hands wind
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. Ronald Reagan
nature grace desire
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor. Ruth Pitter
nature heart home
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
nature looks matter
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. Roy H. Williams
nature weeping seeing
we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature. Susan Griffin
nature hate monopoly
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature taken knowledge
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
nature book knowledge
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
nature morning stars
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
nature knowledge communicate
We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
nature rays atoms
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
nature kingdoms
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
nature faithful faithfulness
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
nature break
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
nature drinking saint
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
nature morning wrinkles
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
nature travel doors
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
nature science two
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
nature wealth
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
nature secret
Nature tells every secret once.
nature breasts
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.
nature selfish people
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
nature character hair
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
nature asylums terror
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
nature saint odd
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .
nature fall color
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.
nature men dust
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
nature essentials
Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
nature white sugar
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.