Quotes about nature
nature flower sea
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea. John James Ingalls
nature becoming grew
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. John James Audubon
nature superiors
. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.
nature children father
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
nature woods wonder-of-nature
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. John Heywood
nature law goal
Nature hath no goal though she hath law. John Donne
nature spring way-forward
The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always inching its way forward, change remains faithful to itself until the new unfolds in the full confidence of true arrival. Because nothing is abrupt, the beginning of spring nearly always catches us unawares. It is there before we see it; and then we can look nowhere without seeing it. John O'Donohue
nature done environment
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. John Milton
nature air years
In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
nature mean desire
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. John Dewey
nature animal purpose
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
nature people quality
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... Leo Tolstoy
nature art epic
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. Lew Wallace
nature adventure men
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive. Joseph Wood Krutch
nature rotting earth
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
nature men scarcity
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
nature people environmental
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
nature excuse accounts
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
nature animal men
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
nature mean mind
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
nature joy cooking
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
nature storyteller
An old Apache storyteller reminds us Joseph Campbell
nature animal sea
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.
nature art work
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
nature mean circles
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious. Joseph Priestley
nature heaven pieces
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard
nature technology development
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. Karl Kraus
nature intelligent revolutionary-leaders
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. Joseph Conrad
nature believe moving
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe. Joseph de Maistre
nature honor able
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
nature rain filters
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. Leonard Cohen
nature fire heroism
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats
nature stars children
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.