Quotes about nature
nature space unnecessary
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. Thomas Browne
nature lying book
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
nature philosophy science
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
nature sky way
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Rumi
nature people outcomes
People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. Vaclav Havel
nature want ugly
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg
nature men class
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O! Robert Burns
nature law looks
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
nature fool
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. Robert Browning
nature exploration cease
We shall not cease from exploration T. S. Eliot
nature struggle men
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
nature sea way
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm. Sylvia Earle
nature children milk
When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. Suzanne Somers
nature america progress
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. Susan Sontag
nature gun people
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
nature civilization interest
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. Ronald Wright
nature garden rainfall
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms. Truman Capote
nature men wisest-man
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man. Tryon Edwards
nature travel tired
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.... Reinhold Messner
nature self environmental
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Reinhold Niebuhr
nature feet lakes
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
nature journey ecosystems
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies. Rebecca Solnit
nature writing butterfly
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
nature animal imagination
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.
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 men air
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. Stewart Udall
nature fear koalas
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Steve Irwin
nature men secret
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth. Sri Aurobindo
nature children people
We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable. Rutherford B. Hayes
nature clouds together
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony. Ruth Bernhard
nature art ability
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have. Rudolf Nureyev