Quotes about nature
nature heart sky
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. Laurie Halse Anderson
nature children stress
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Laura Bush
nature children community
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.
nature character views
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. Theophrastus
nature evil shame
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. Tertullian
nature men religion
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
nature real thinking
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged. Terry Tempest Williams
nature past animal
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
nature mean science
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
nature keys pyramids
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. Terry Pratchett
nature attitude eye
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. Marc Chagall
nature men laughing
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. Thomas A. Edison
nature glory screens
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature player men
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
nature spirit made
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
nature book taken
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
nature men related
A man is related to all nature.
nature science law
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
nature garden tree
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
nature fighting ifs
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey. Simon Bolivar
nature flower dark
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein
nature animal people
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth. Sy Montgomery
nature children animal
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?
nature internals
External nature is only internal nature writ large. Swami Vivekananda
nature two acting
Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001. Tom Ridge
nature men united-states
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man. Simone de Beauvoir
nature sky roots
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky. Simone Weil
nature heaven pieces
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard
nature technology development
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. Karl Kraus
nature perfect people
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new. Karl Lagerfeld
nature
Nature and wisdom always say the same. Juvenal
nature earth-day doe
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
nature tree fool
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree Joyce Kilmer