Quotes about nature
nature names crime
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Emma Goldman
nature flower sea
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea. John James Ingalls
nature becoming grew
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. John James Audubon
nature superiors
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
nature children father
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
nature woods wonder-of-nature
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. John Heywood
nature work
the comprehensive nature of the work that they do.
nature
The competitive nature comes out down the stretch.
nature problem humans
There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble. Ralph Bunche
nature strong writing
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple "I must," then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Then draw near to Nature. Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose. Rainer Maria Rilke
nature winning simple
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.
nature children integrity
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
nature tree earth
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
nature spring heart
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
nature people joy
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. Michael Pollan
nature verbs passive
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
nature cutting thinking
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day. Michael Leunig
nature trying environmental
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. Sidney Sheldon
nature numbers compromise
Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment. Sidney Poitier
nature gossip telephones
Gossip is nature's telephone. Sholom Aleichem
nature law goal
Nature hath no goal though she hath law. John Donne
nature spring way-forward
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always inching its way forward, change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it. John O'Donohue
nature done environment
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. John Milton
nature air years
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
nature long looks
To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long... John Moffitt
nature science enzymes
So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life. John Desmond Bernal
nature mean desire
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. John Dewey
nature animal purpose
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
nature art drama
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. John Berger
nature heredity-and-environment two
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. John B. S. Haldane
nature mean culture
Culture means control over nature. Johan Huizinga
nature money work
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future. Joan Robinson
nature men mind
As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel