Quotes about nature
nature goodness turns
Nature turns all malfaisance to good. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature jesus humility
The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
nature creativity simple
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
nature expression clouds
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
nature men raw-materials
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.
nature sunset men
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
nature home rome
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.
nature ministry apparitions
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
nature elements savages
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
nature wind weather
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
nature morning wrinkles
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
nature looks landscape
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature power doe
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
nature law names
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
nature hate calculators
Nature hates calculators.
nature perfection crystals
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
nature clouds steadfast
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
nature men tongue
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
nature health garden
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
nature mean science
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
nature goal mind
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. Les Brown
nature heart sky
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. Laurie Halse Anderson
nature children stress
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. Laura Bush
nature children community
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.
nature character views
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. Theophrastus
nature evil shame
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. Tertullian
nature men religion
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
nature real thinking
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged. Terry Tempest Williams
nature past animal
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
nature mean science
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
nature keys pyramids
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. Terry Pratchett
nature jobs thinking
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. Terri Windling
nature time flower
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. Tennessee Williams