Quotes about nature
nature men aluminum-cans
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess. Art Buchwald
nature demand doe
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. Ayn Rand
nature reaching reveal serves
If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.
nature self bud
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. Diane Ackerman
nature wings roots
"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey Edward Abbey
nature conservation smart-growth
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
nature vacant
There are no vacant lots in nature.
nature our-love unfaithful
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
nature civilization cities
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
nature civilization names
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
nature human-nature domination
The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
nature heart volcanoes
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.
nature insperational luxury
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
nature adventure journey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
nature art men
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once. Aristotle
nature vain incomplete
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
nature views research
He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
nature children animal
Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.
nature passing-away causes
For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.
nature imperfect infinite
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
nature great-poetry poetry-is
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
nature equality desire
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
nature faults results
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
nature animal natural
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
nature causes action
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
nature philosophical passion
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
nature physicians heal
The physician heals, Nature makes well.
nature philosophical men
Man is by nature a political animal.
nature force
Force works on servile natures, not the free. Ben Jonson
nature smart successful
The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place. Ed McMahon
nature smart community
The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.
nature way dimensions
If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways. Edward Witten
nature simplicity physics
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.