Quotes about nature
nature animal realizing
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal. Mahatma Gandhi
nature purpose life-is
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.
nature events mysterious
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
nature garden earth
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
nature mean circles
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious. Joseph Priestley
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
nature interesting trying
What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness. Oscar Isaac
nature people analysis
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Oscar Wilde
nature science law
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. Maria Mitchell
nature moving sea
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. Paul Tillich
nature artist confusion
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. Paul Klee
nature children people
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises...
nature writing process
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. Paul de Man
nature science interesting
As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen. Paul Dirac
nature views law
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer. Paul Davies
nature blessed thinking
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Hamlin Garland
nature sunset fire
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
nature fall blood
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
nature believe sky
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. Gustave Flaubert
nature spring environment
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon. Gilbert K. Chesterton
nature book enchantment
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
nature wine men
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.
nature art tails
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. John Dryden
nature eye science
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
nature chaucer
Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.
nature art silly
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
nature art operations
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. Louis Pasteur
nature farewell woods
There is pleasure in the pathless woods. Lord Byron