Quotes about nature
nature children community
We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment. Laura Bush
nature character views
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. Theophrastus
nature evil shame
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. Tertullian
nature men religion
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
nature real thinking
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged. Terry Tempest Williams
nature past animal
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
nature mean science
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
nature keys pyramids
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. Terry Pratchett
nature jobs thinking
The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. Terri Windling
nature hate monopoly
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature taken knowledge
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
nature book knowledge
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
nature morning stars
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
nature knowledge communicate
We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
nature rays atoms
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
nature kingdoms
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
nature faithful faithfulness
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
nature break
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.
nature drinking saint
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
nature morning wrinkles
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
nature travel doors
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
nature science two
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
nature wealth
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
nature secret
Nature tells every secret once.
nature breasts
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.
nature selfish people
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
nature character hair
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
nature asylums terror
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
nature saint odd
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .
nature fall color
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.
nature men dust
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
nature essentials
Power is in nature the essential measure of right.
nature white sugar
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.