Quotes about nature
nature way environment
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature luxury parent
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
nature latin flower
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
nature art masters
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
nature eye leaving
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."
nature rain doe
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
nature individual reckless
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
nature heart men
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
nature garden firsts
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
nature flower sky
it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
nature holiday color
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
nature method
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
nature practice doubt
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything. Shunryu Suzuki
nature mean science
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. Lewis Thomas
nature men embedded
Man is embedded in nature.
nature garden kitchen
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.
nature dna achievement
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
nature new-york character
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. Len Wein
nature land texas
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. Lady Bird Johnson
nature mutual-interest earth-day
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
nature art natural
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things. Marcus Aurelius
nature opportunity purpose
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.
nature ties faults
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.
nature benefits whole
Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
nature philosophical men
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
nature attitude eye
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. Marc Chagall
nature women maturity
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Samuel Johnson
nature real thinking
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know. Robert M. Pirsig
nature heart men
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson
nature lying flower
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures? Walt Disney
nature business simplicity
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman
nature ease standing
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
nature stars believe
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.