Quotes about nature
nature healing wilderness
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature. Rachel Carson
nature ocean sea
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
nature children humanity
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
nature children years
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
nature future character
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
nature philosophy men
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
nature heart night
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. Nathaniel Hawthorne
nature children roots
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
nature trying nonsense
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.
nature feelings may
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.
nature climbing mountain
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
nature science law
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. Maria Mitchell
nature moving sea
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. Paul Tillich
nature artist confusion
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. Paul Klee
nature children people
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises...
nature writing process
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. Paul de Man
nature science interesting
As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen. Paul Dirac
nature views law
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer. Paul Davies
nature tinkering world
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it. Paolo Bacigalupi
nature health mean
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Paracelsus
nature light invisible
Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature can be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature will become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her in her inner light.
nature punishment faults
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley
nature majestic-beauty shapes
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.
nature kissing night
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
nature odds want
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! Paul Taylor
nature play levels
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. Paul Watzlawick
nature track trying
Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.
nature morning purple
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory. Mary McLeod Bethune
nature sea facts
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery ... Mary Oliver
nature stars voice
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
nature tree
Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.
nature memories rose
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie
nature names crime
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Emma Goldman