Quotes about nature
nature yellow pieces
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. Vincent Van Gogh
nature stars ignorance
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
nature people have-faith
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. Vincent Van Gogh
nature giving
Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can. Wayne Dyer
nature flower eternity-of-life
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. William Blake
nature flower eternity-of-life
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. William Blake
nature eye men
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake
nature moving eye
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake
nature able way
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature. Werner Heisenberg
nature feet world
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. Werner Herzog
nature effort might
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. Wallace Stegner
nature taken mean
Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half. Samuel Butler
nature men animal
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
nature mistake design
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dali
nature fate firsts
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. Salman Rushdie
nature ignorance responsibility
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. Rudolf Steiner
nature powerful government
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. Wangari Maathai
nature talking water
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. Wangari Maathai
nature men paradise
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. Konrad Lorenz
nature eye tears
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both. Konrad Lorenz
nature heart greatness
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself. Kent Nerburn
nature men circles
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature eye pride
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature balance genius
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature used symbols
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature ocean men
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature ambition hot
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature jesus heaven
The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature sadness men
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men humanity
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature eggs clouds
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men broken
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature fear children
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Ralph Waldo Emerson