Quotes about nature
nature eye animal
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. Victor Hugo
nature sea sky
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
nature men animal
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.
nature spring heart
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
nature men sea
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
nature dirty cat
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall. Vicki Baum
nature civilization wrecks
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. Richard Bach
nature blow tree
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow. Robert Frost
nature kings situation
For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
nature machinery whole
For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
nature war men
There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....
nature optimism climbing-trees
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
nature hints
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
nature genius action
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature. Robert Blair
nature golf eggs
If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls. Robert Benchley
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 travel flower
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
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.
nature animal leaves-of-grass
This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...
nature sleep air
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
nature children hands
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
nature healing thinking
I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control. Roseanne Barr
nature grateful thinking
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that? Robert Wright
nature flower balls
Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.
nature pain men
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. Robert Trout
nature forests hills
And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
nature rain animal
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals. Samuel Johnson
nature men envy
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
nature facts priests
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. Robert Green Ingersoll
nature anxiety trouble
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. Rudyard Kipling
nature rain years
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods
nature women maturity
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.