Quotes about nature
nature noble youth
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. George Santayana
nature firsts provoking
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
nature men answers
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
nature soul conformity
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
nature animal golden
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. Fyodor Dostoevsky
nature freedom envy
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
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
nature philosophy stupid
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. George Carlin
nature charm not-sure
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. Gene Tierney
nature travel ocean
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm. Frank Waters
nature doe sensible
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. George Edward Woodberry
nature real reading
Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning. George Eliot
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 sides priceless
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
nature garden luxury
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
nature stars optimistic
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.
nature desire way
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.
nature order ideas
Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
nature literature privacy
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
nature sunshine labor
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
nature fall autumn
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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.