Quotes about nature
nature experts life-is
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring soul
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
nature garments visible
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
nature tired entering
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
nature accomplish leap
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
nature taken suffering
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
nature fall arms
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
nature names form
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
nature giving disease
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
nature men errors
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
nature people listening
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
nature fall light
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
nature science order
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
nature law rose
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
nature artist interesting
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.
nature art degrees
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
nature spring rain
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.
nature progress development
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
nature artist slave
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
nature secret midst
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.
nature book important
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
nature science connections
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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.