Quotes about nature
nature animal people
If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh. Benjamin Hoff
nature lying circles
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line... Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. Benoit Mandelbrot
nature attention lessons
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us. Black Elk
nature book littles
In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. William Shakespeare
nature
And nature must obey necessity.
nature sleep night
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
nature hands human-nature
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
nature wild-beauty tree
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
nature spring april
April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
nature beast imperialism
...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. Che Guevara
nature miracle environmental
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life. Charles Lindbergh
nature years careers
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.
nature accomplishment miracle
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
nature men joy
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. Bliss Carman
nature ordinary blind
When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha. Bill Porter
nature thugs
When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising. John McCarthy
nature normally people
Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet. Kristin Armstrong
nature flower perfect
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen
nature eye fancy
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
nature humility ravens
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. Janine Benyus
nature thinking perspective
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.
nature real years
The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.
nature wind law
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.
nature reality law
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
nature writing environmental
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.
nature stories use
If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.
nature tired eye
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer. Calvin Coolidge
nature unique space
Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature. Bryant H. McGill
nature people be-kind
We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.
nature cutting technology
The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.
nature men deals
There is a great deal of human nature in man. Charles Kingsley
nature law invisible
Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.
nature children ocean
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.