Quotes about nature
nature memories animal
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. Charles Darwin
nature law interesting
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.
nature feelings delight
Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.
nature animal pyramids
We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!
nature ocean reflection
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.
nature lying ifs
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.
nature faces origin-of-species
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
nature war animal
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.
nature men light
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
nature men two
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal
nature quality delight
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
nature firsts habit
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
nature reason skeptic
Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists
nature world bosoms
All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
nature time men
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.
nature roots mind
Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
nature order perfection
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.
nature agency secret
The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
nature might speak
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.
nature sun deceiving
When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.
nature miracle grace
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
nature reality men
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.
nature motivation ocean
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
nature math garden
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
nature survival world
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap. Eckhart Tolle
nature motivation inspiration
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon. Brian Greene
nature science ideas
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
nature humorous sarcasm
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
nature acceptance men
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
nature law understanding
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same and everywhere one and thesame in her efficiency and power of action; that is, nature's laws and ordinances whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules. Baruch Spinoza
nature philosophical environment
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
nature names able
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. Ashley Montagu
nature bird swamps
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself. Berthold Auerbach