Quotes about nature
nature secret midst
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
nature book important
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
nature science connections
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
nature greatness way
I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it. Jimmy Carter
nature law suffering
We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.
nature art science
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences. John Cage
nature woods ifs
What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
nature requires
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
nature thinking people
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else. James Taylor
nature fun people
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James Thurber
nature children thinking
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays. Norton Juster
nature land contentment
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? Ellen Glasgow
nature mirrors divinity
Nature is the mirror of divinity. Ellen G. White
nature pain heart
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Erasmus Darwin
nature law house
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!
nature flower animal
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.
nature home gardening
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. Emily Dickinson
nature smart butterfly
In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!
nature flower careers
The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.
nature tree hemlock
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?
nature sometimes caught
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
nature kings spring
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown, Who ponders this tremendous scene-- This whole experiment in green, As if it were his own!
nature adversity writing
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
nature men forever
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency. Ellsworth Huntington
nature spring contentment
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters
nature two acting
Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001. Tom Ridge
nature men united-states
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man. Simone de Beauvoir
nature sky roots
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky. Simone Weil
nature abuse pity
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
nature natural glorious
Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious. Thomas Traherne
nature names purpose
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. Thomas Szasz
nature men circles
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature eye pride
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.