Quotes about nature
nature law mankind
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. Luc de Clapiers
nature art operations
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. Louis Pasteur
nature farewell woods
There is pleasure in the pathless woods. Lord Byron
nature moving science
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. Lord Acton
nature scene wildness
Wildness is my suiting scene. John Clare
nature soul grace
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. Johannes Tauler
nature science simplicity
Nature uses as little as possible of anything. Johannes Kepler
nature money ignorance
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams
nature science technology
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski
nature cutting feet
Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. Louise Erdrich
nature get-well healing
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. Maya Angelou
nature writing hands
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. Matthew Arnold
nature sky light
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
nature adventure snow
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
nature men law
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. Max Beerbohm
nature natural-instinct strongest
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
nature two people
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. Marilynne Robinson
nature
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. Maria Montessori
nature transformed destroyed
in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.
nature ducks white
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white. Matsuo Basho
nature rocks cicadas
Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.
nature home journey
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
nature cutting opportunity
No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life. Mary Webb
nature creative gold
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?
nature silence music-is
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
nature passion greed
The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.
nature attitude science
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions. Philip Warren Anderson
nature understanding inquiry
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
nature flower garden
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy. Khalil Gibran
nature writing sky
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
nature yield profound
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them. Napoleon Hill
nature discovery order
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. Northrop Frye
nature love-is hills
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. Norman MacCaig