Quotes about nature
nature couple church
The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage. Pope Francis
nature struggle priorities
It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.
nature men faults
I don't know if it is all (man's fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
nature taken men
I don't know if it (human activity) is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.
nature environment creation
Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
nature choices may
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. Rachel Carson
nature healing wilderness
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
nature ocean sea
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
nature children humanity
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
nature children years
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
nature future character
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
nature philosophy men
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
nature heart night
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. Nathaniel Hawthorne
nature children roots
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
nature trying nonsense
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
nature feelings may
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.
nature climbing mountain
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
nature stars moon
We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
nature stars flower
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
nature knows nature-and-environment
It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. Pearl S. Buck
nature earth assuming
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
nature animal joy
If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God! Peace Pilgrim
nature real thinking
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged. Terry Tempest Williams
nature past animal
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
nature mean science
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
nature keys pyramids
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. Terry Pratchett
nature jobs thinking
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. Terri Windling
nature time flower
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. Tennessee Williams
nature stuff vacuums
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
nature animal people
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ... Temple Grandin
nature hate monopoly
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature taken knowledge
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
nature book knowledge
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.