Quotes about nature
nature law political
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science. John Stuart Mill
nature solitude natural
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
nature men blue
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world. James Jeans
nature advice research
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.
nature men worn
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. James Russell Lowell
nature flower heaven
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
nature attitude eye
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. Marc Chagall
nature men laughing
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. Thomas A. Edison
nature glory screens
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature player men
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
nature spirit made
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
nature book taken
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
nature men related
A man is related to all nature.
nature science law
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
nature garden tree
In the woods we return to reason and faith.
nature fighting ifs
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey. Simon Bolivar
nature flower dark
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Shel Silverstein
nature animal people
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth. Sy Montgomery
nature children animal
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?
nature internals
External nature is only internal nature writ large. Swami Vivekananda
nature interesting missing
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. Peggy Noonan
nature lying gay
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. Marlo Thomas
nature body temperature
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution. Max Planck
nature world vastness
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
nature science answers
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
nature science trying
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
nature mean loss
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. May Sarton
nature work
the comprehensive nature of the work that they do.
nature
The competitive nature comes out down the stretch.
nature stars world
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is. John Fowles
nature moving tree
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
nature past squares
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future. John F. Kennedy
nature choices may
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber. Rachel Carson