Quotes about nature
nature abuse pity
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
nature natural glorious
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious. Thomas Traherne
nature names purpose
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. Thomas Szasz
nature educational men
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. Thomas Jefferson
nature men impossible-things
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt. Robert Boyle
nature looks preservation
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
nature memories reality
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison
nature art men
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. Victor Hugo
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.
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 motivation vicious
Human nature is not of itself vicious. Thomas Paine
nature men information
Man must go back to nature for information.
nature rain science
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes. Thomas Huxley
nature men
Man's Place in Nature.
nature theology absurdity
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
nature teaching self
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
nature rocks water
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths. Thomas Cole
nature art perfection
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.
nature regret men
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
nature rich spoil
Rich with the spoils of nature. Thomas Browne