Quotes about nature
nature educational men
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth
nature tree woods
"One impulse from a vernal wood
nature faces common
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
nature growing sound
The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
nature book heart
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.
nature prayer kindness
. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
nature blow moon
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
nature heart years
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
nature book joy
May books and nature be their early joy!
nature mountain earth
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
nature
For nature then to me was all in all.
nature years feels
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
nature teach
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
nature humanity environmental
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
nature pleasure daffodil
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
nature
Love can be founded upon Nature only. William Shenstone
nature flames two
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know. William James
nature motivation people
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. Will Durant
nature equality independence
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
nature cheer communication
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing
nature no-forgiveness
There is no forgiveness in nature. Ugo Betti
nature intelligent reality
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them. Robin G. Collingwood
nature thinking earth-day
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford
nature life-is turns
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. Richard P. Feynman
nature men imagination
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
nature imagination usual
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
nature real learning
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
nature learning evil
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. Richard Dawkins
nature art eye
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. Richard Wilbur
nature son men
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. Thomas Sydenham
nature
It is my nature to thin where others read.
nature confused effort
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
nature fever instruments
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.