Quotes about nature
nature two age
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. John Dryden
nature thinking tree
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me. John Lubbock
nature animal understanding
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding. John Locke
nature color green-world
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
nature land space
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Rabindranath Tagore
nature stars simple
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
nature men artist
For man is by nature an artist.
nature flower butterfly
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
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.
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 knows nature-and-environment
It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. Pearl S. Buck
nature earth assuming
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
nature animal joy
If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God! Peace Pilgrim
nature grandchildren tree
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith
nature independent self
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence. Peter Coyote
nature tasks rediscovery
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. Raoul Vaneigem
nature excellence tables
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed. Thomas Jefferson
nature moving animal
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.
nature miracle spirituality
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature. Sylvia Fraser
nature sky way
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Rumi
nature no-forgiveness
There is no forgiveness in nature. Ugo Betti
nature intelligent reality
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them. Robin G. Collingwood
nature thinking earth-day
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford
nature life-is turns
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. Richard P. Feynman
nature men imagination
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
nature imagination usual
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
nature real learning
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
nature learning evil
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. Richard Dawkins
nature art eye
The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. Richard Wilbur
nature children scary
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. Thornton Wilder
nature motivation vicious
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine
nature blood voice
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.