Quotes about nature
nature progress demand
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. Orison Swett Marden
nature stars flower
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
nature attitude enjoy-life
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
nature royal instinct
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
nature flower blossoming
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
nature men perfection
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. Eric Hoffer
nature compassion punishment
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
nature ambition tilt
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape.
nature mistake men
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
nature men goal
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
nature men self
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
nature boys equality
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Eric Berne
nature pieces slip tacky taken version
All those midriff-baring pieces have taken on a tacky nature. A slip is the new pristine version of sexiness.
nature has-beens pretension
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. Johann Kaspar Lavater
nature experts life-is
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature spring soul
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
nature garments visible
Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
nature tired entering
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
nature accomplish leap
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
nature taken suffering
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
nature fall arms
Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
nature names form
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
nature giving disease
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
nature men errors
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
nature people listening
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
nature fall light
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
nature science order
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
nature law rose
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
nature artist interesting
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.
nature art degrees
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
nature spring rain
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.
nature progress development
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
nature artist slave
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.