Quotes about nature
nature world sparrows
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey. Alfred Lord Tennyson
nature men mind
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
nature red teeth
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
nature mind noble
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
nature wall spring
Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.
nature flower hours
If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
nature
Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.
nature trying emulate
You see nature and then you try to emulate it. Alexander Calder
nature art embedded
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it. Albrecht Durer
nature intelligent tinkering
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold
nature opportunity important
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
nature interesting long
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.
nature cities house
If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.
nature people common
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
nature fuel failing
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
nature environmental wilderness
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
nature drama littles
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
nature spring heart
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?
nature land justice
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
nature ignorance men
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
nature men land
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
nature environment prosperity
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley
nature flavor may
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
nature father climbing
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
nature men tyrants
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
nature littles mystery
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace. Albert Einstein
nature science men
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
nature mean government
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power. Alexander Hamilton
nature survival indifferent
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. Adlai E. Stevenson
nature children sacrifice
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel. Adolf Hitler
nature movement energy
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments. Adam Sedgwick
nature book character
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
nature
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.' Robert Byrne