Quotes about nature
nature men flames
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture. Friedrich Schiller
nature solitude
There is no solitude in nature.
nature ocean swim
No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.
nature men law
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Franklin D. Roosevelt
nature patriotic air
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
nature science land
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
nature heart air
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. Jon Krakauer
nature law mankind
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. Luc de Clapiers
nature art operations
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. Louis Pasteur
nature farewell woods
There is pleasure in the pathless woods. Lord Byron
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 pieces slip tacky taken version
All those midriff-baring pieces have taken on a tacky nature. A slip is the new pristine version of sexiness.
nature men perfection
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. Eric Hoffer
nature men self
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
nature boys equality
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Eric Berne
nature discovery order
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. Northrop Frye
nature love-is hills
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. Norman MacCaig
nature progress demand
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. Orison Swett Marden
nature stars flower
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
nature attitude enjoy-life
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
nature royal instinct
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Oliver Wendell Holmes
nature flower blossoming
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
nature children thinking
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays. Norton Juster
nature land contentment
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? Ellen Glasgow
nature mirrors divinity
Nature is the mirror of divinity. Ellen G. White
nature pain heart
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Erasmus Darwin
nature law house
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!
nature flower animal
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.
nature home gardening
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. Emily Dickinson
nature smart butterfly
In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!