Quotes about nature
nature children men
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. H. G. Wells
nature growing-up kids
Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody. C. Everett Koop
nature kids play
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
nature kids play
If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
nature kids thinking
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
nature men sky
There is the sky, which is all men's together. Euripides
nature science vacuums
Nature abhors a vacuum. Francois Rabelais
nature conclusion incomplete
How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her. Christopher Fry
nature events splendid
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid. Gertrude Stein
nature glasses flames
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. Harry Hill
nature creative mind
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann
nature looks certain
Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. Hal Borland
nature pain thorns
There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
nature squirrels bird
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
nature heart autumn
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
nature simple sometimes
Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.
nature thinking government
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. Herbert Spencer
nature law
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. Herman Melville
nature ifs
If not against us, nature is not for us.
nature travel memorable
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
nature allies
Nature is nobody's ally.
nature father rome
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones. Henry David Thoreau
nature health men
The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
nature men race
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
nature flower men
Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.
nature cities rivers
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
nature eye men
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.
nature men civilization
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
nature men earth
I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
nature appreciate humans
Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
nature eye men
For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.
nature morning mosquitoes
I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.
nature deals
How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!