Quotes about nature
nature book heart
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life. William Wordsworth
nature prayer kindness
. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
nature blow moon
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
nature heart years
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
nature book joy
May books and nature be their early joy!
nature mountain earth
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
nature
For nature then to me was all in all.
nature years feels
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
nature teach
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
nature humanity environmental
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
nature pleasure daffodil
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
nature
Love can be founded upon Nature only. William Shenstone
nature flames two
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know. William James
nature motivation people
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. Will Durant
nature equality independence
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
nature cheer communication
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing
nature stars ocean
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by. Saint Augustine
nature smart order
Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment. Will Rogers
nature night yards
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. W. C. Fields
nature long lasts
Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible. Yvon Chouinard
nature powerful principles
There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it. Zhuangzi
nature companion all-things
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
nature doe satisfied
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
nature practice-of-medicine discovery
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease. William Harvey
nature book faces
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. William Hazlitt
nature strong book
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
nature fall heart
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
nature ignorance ideas
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea. Wendell Berry
nature long earth
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
nature people want
People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
nature believe availability
Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
nature garden race
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
nature healing tree
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.