Quotes about nature
nature stars simple
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. Rabindranath Tagore
nature men artist
For man is by nature an artist.
nature flower butterfly
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.
nature men paradise
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. Konrad Lorenz
nature eye tears
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.
nature heart greatness
Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself. Kent Nerburn
nature men circles
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature eye pride
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.
nature balance genius
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
nature used symbols
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
nature ocean men
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
nature ambition hot
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.
nature jesus heaven
The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
nature sadness men
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
nature men humanity
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.
nature eggs clouds
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
nature men broken
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
nature fear children
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
nature goodness turns
Nature turns all malfaisance to good.
nature jesus humility
The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
nature creativity simple
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
nature expression clouds
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
nature men raw-materials
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.
nature sunset men
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
nature home rome
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.
nature ministry apparitions
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
nature elements savages
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
nature wind weather
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
nature morning wrinkles
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
nature looks landscape
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature power doe
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
nature law names
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.
nature hate calculators
Nature hates calculators.