Quotes about nature
nature flower eternity-of-life
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. William Blake
nature flower eternity-of-life
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
nature eye men
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
nature moving eye
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
nature able way
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature. Werner Heisenberg
nature feet world
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. Werner Herzog
nature effort might
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. Wallace Stegner
nature taken mean
Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half. Samuel Butler
nature men animal
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
nature mistake design
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dali
nature fate firsts
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. Salman Rushdie
nature ignorance responsibility
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era. Rudolf Steiner
nature powerful government
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. Wangari Maathai
nature talking water
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
nature woods climate
a culture is no better than its woods W. H. Auden
nature moving reindeer
Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
nature long delight
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile William Cowper
nature travel names
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
nature wind snow
The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world. Wayne Dyer
nature real thinking
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know. Robert M. Pirsig
nature writing reality
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages. Robert Louis Stevenson
nature heart men
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
nature lying flower
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures? Walt Disney
nature business simplicity
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman
nature travel flower
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
nature ease standing
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
nature stars believe
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
nature animal leaves-of-grass
This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...
nature sleep air
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
nature children hands
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
nature healing thinking
I used to think that communing with nature was a healing, positive thing. Now, I think I'd like to commune with other things - like room service and temperature control. Roseanne Barr
nature grateful thinking
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that? Robert Wright
nature flower balls
Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.