Quotes about nature
nature real ocean
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being. Henri Nouwen
nature memorable men
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. Helen Rowland
nature morning spring
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun... Heinrich Heine
nature transition poet
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
nature flower smell
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
nature heart mind
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind. Henry Walter Bates
nature accustomed
Nature is accustomed to hide itself. Heraclitus
nature nature-love
Nature loves to hide.
nature rain adventure
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher
nature flower garden
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
nature roots growth
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.
nature enjoyment manly
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
nature wind puff
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
nature garden environmental
All nature wears one universal grin. Henry Fielding
nature has-beens pretension
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. Johann Kaspar Lavater
nature experts life-is
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring soul
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
nature garments visible
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
nature tired entering
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
nature accomplish leap
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
nature taken suffering
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
nature fall arms
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
nature names form
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
nature blessed thinking
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Hamlin Garland
nature sunset fire
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
nature fall blood
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
nature believe sky
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. Gustave Flaubert
nature spring environment
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon. Gilbert K. Chesterton
nature book enchantment
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
nature wine men
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.
nature art tails
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. John Dryden
nature eye science
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
nature chaucer
Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.