Quotes about nature
nature performing touching
It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature. E. O. Wilson
nature men imagination
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. Richard P. Feynman
nature learning evil
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. Richard Dawkins
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 tree woods
"One impulse from a vernal wood William Wordsworth
nature land people
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy. Richard Louv
nature cities intellectual
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand. Richard Louv
nature school garden
Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens. Richard Louv
nature school parent
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world. Richard Louv
nature parenting woods
The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses. Richard Louv
nature children self-confidence
An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger Richard Louv
nature dust hands
Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. Richard Louv
nature travel journey
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. Richard Francis Burton
nature butterfly apples
I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me. Richard Le Gallienne
nature no-forgiveness
There is no forgiveness in nature. Ugo Betti
nature intelligent reality
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them. Robin G. Collingwood
nature thinking earth-day
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? Robert Redford
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. Samuel Johnson
nature butterfly men
Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs. Wallace Stevens
nature years machines
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine. Wallace Stevens
nature spring silly
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens
nature flower ivy
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn. William Henry Hudson
nature tree way
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather
nature cutting tree
Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees. Vladimir Horowitz
nature want sometimes
I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature. Vincent Van Gogh
nature yellow pieces
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. Vincent Van Gogh
nature stars ignorance
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
nature people have-faith
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. Vincent Van Gogh
nature giving
Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can. Wayne Dyer