Quotes about nature
nature travel journey
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. Richard Francis Burton
nature butterfly apples
I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me. Richard Le Gallienne
nature healing thinking
I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control. Roseanne Barr
nature grateful thinking
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that? Robert Wright
nature flower balls
Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.
nature pain men
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. Robert Trout
nature forests hills
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
nature rain animal
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals. Samuel Johnson
nature men envy
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
nature butterfly men
Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs. Wallace Stevens
nature years machines
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
nature spring silly
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
nature flower ivy
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn. William Henry Hudson
nature forests study
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. Washington Irving
nature soul noble
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
nature sells
Happiness is a good that nature sells us. Voltaire
nature truth being-true
What is not in nature can never be true.
nature men arguing
Men argue. Nature acts.
nature animal men
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
nature order eels
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
nature flower rose
The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower. William C. Bryant
nature teaching sky
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
nature moon men
on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry. William Butler Yeats
nature heart moon
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will....
nature art byzantium
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
nature mistake people
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. Walter Ulbricht
nature identity inspired
That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is. Walter Russell
nature simple names
Our very name for God's Creation is NATURE, for that is what Nature is. I shall define Nature for you in simple words. Nature is an electric wave thought image of God's nature, electrically projected from His formless and unconditioned ONE LIGHT into countless many forms of conditioned light which we call matter.
nature matter answers
In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter.
nature future littles
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. Walter Savage Landor
nature
Some touch of Nature's genial glow. Walter Scott
nature ambition perfection
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
nature poet celebrate
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.