Quotes about nature
nature flames color
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Gerard Manley Hopkins
nature stupidity moron
Nature abhors a moron. H. L. Mencken
nature forgotten danger
What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.
nature elements architecture
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. Guillaume Apollinaire
nature ideas roots
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. Paul Farmer
nature lying down-and
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow. Marya Mannes
nature customs
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. Mary Wortley Montagu
nature mean men
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
nature design deities
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. Mary Wollstonecraft
nature taken men
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor. Mary Hunter Austin
nature men land
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
nature path infinite-possibilities
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path. Martha Beck
nature science law
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws. Marshall McLuhan
nature invention lacking
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci
nature travel eye
Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
nature travel differences
When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.
nature travel variation
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.
nature travel home
What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?
nature travel sea
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea...
nature travel giving
If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.
nature travel air
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.
nature air water
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
nature science law
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
nature genius masters
Nature alone is the master of true genius.
nature causes produce
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
nature done way
Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
nature law order
Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.
nature mistress guides
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
nature travel eye
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.
nature travel light
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.
nature travel art
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.
nature travel vision
I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.
nature artist opposites
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.