Quotes about nature
nature
Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. Alfred Lord Tennyson
nature trying emulate
You see nature and then you try to emulate it. Alexander Calder
nature art embedded
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it. Albrecht Durer
nature intelligent tinkering
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold
nature opportunity important
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
nature interesting long
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.
nature cities house
If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.
nature people common
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
nature fuel failing
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
nature environmental wilderness
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
nature drama littles
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
nature spring heart
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?
nature land justice
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
nature ignorance men
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
nature men land
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
nature environment prosperity
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley
nature flavor may
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
nature father climbing
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
nature men tyrants
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
nature littles mystery
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace. Albert Einstein
nature science men
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
nature mean government
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power. Alexander Hamilton
nature father joy
All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself. Alexander MacLaren
nature eye angel
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing. Alexander Pope
nature next atoms
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
nature ocean eye
[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.
nature children law
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
nature men use
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
nature science night
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
nature exercise imagination
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
nature children fur
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
nature tree robes
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
nature school fool
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.