Quotes about nature
nature morning bird
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation. Henry David Thoreau
nature yellow eight
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
nature adventure dead-poets-society
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
nature cost curtains
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
nature profession nature-beauty
My profession is to always find God in nature.
nature children men
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!
nature healing quality
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
nature long-walks weather
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
nature science men
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
nature long may
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
nature anxiety leisure
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
nature voice saddening
The voice of nature is always encouraging.
nature believe yield
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
nature growing-up animal
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. Miles Franklin
nature rain sunshine
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison
nature purpose doe
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
nature fall confusion
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
nature literature weakness
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
nature fall animal
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
nature simple delight
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.
nature delight cry
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
nature anger evil
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
nature miracle quality
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
nature book reading
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
nature ddt apples
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. Joni Mitchell
nature men thinking
Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us! M. Russell Ballard
nature brother philosophy
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . . Luther Burbank
nature environmental return
We must return to nature and nature's god.
nature flower sunshine
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
nature reality water
Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci
nature males undeserving
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. Lisa Kleypas
nature men echoes
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind. John Updike
nature play giving
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. John Stuart Mill