Quotes about nature
nature men embedded
Man is embedded in nature. Lewis Thomas
nature garden kitchen
We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.
nature dna achievement
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
nature new-york character
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. Len Wein
nature land texas
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. Lady Bird Johnson
nature mutual-interest earth-day
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
nature art natural
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things. Marcus Aurelius
nature opportunity purpose
Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.
nature ties faults
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.
nature benefits whole
Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
nature philosophical men
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
nature attitude eye
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. Marc Chagall
nature men laughing
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. Thomas A. Edison
nature glory screens
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature player men
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
nature spirit made
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
nature book taken
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
nature men related
A man is related to all nature.
nature science law
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
nature garden tree
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
nature fighting ifs
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey. Simon Bolivar
nature flower dark
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein
nature intelligent revolutionary-leaders
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. Joseph Conrad
nature believe moving
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe. Joseph de Maistre
nature honor able
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
nature rain filters
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Leonard Cohen
nature fire heroism
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
nature stars children
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.
nature heart men
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. Leo Tolstoy
nature people quality
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
nature grandchildren tree
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith
nature independent self
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence. Peter Coyote
nature land space
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Rabindranath Tagore