Quotes about nature
nature children stupid
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple. Eugene Delacroix
nature unity parts-of-a-whole
Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.
nature father moon
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done. Ernest Hemingway
nature math law
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
nature men masters
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature. Henry Miller
nature men emotion
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions. Henri Bergson
nature real order
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it. . . .
nature soul landscape
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail. Henri Frederic Amiel
nature greatness house
Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.
nature loss men
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. Helen Keller
nature order my-family
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order. James Cagney
nature wall blue
Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea. Jacques Yves Cousteau
nature
We must go and see for ourselves.
nature travel ocean
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
nature moving tonight
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board Gary Snyder
nature order kind
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
nature home earth
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
nature moving space
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased. Gaston Bachelard
nature science vacuums
Nature abhors a vacuum. Francois Rabelais
nature conclusion incomplete
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Christopher Fry
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. George Eliot
nature eye past
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
nature lord vicars
Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. Geoffrey Chaucer
nature next moments
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.
nature travel winter
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. Christina Rossetti
nature stars eye
Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.
nature sadness eye
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
nature way action
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
nature character men
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
nature garden trekking
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
nature desire literature
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
nature rain somewhere-under
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean. George R. R. Martin