Quotes about nature
nature money ignorance
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams
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 path
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
nature heart blood
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
nature world extinction
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. James Hansen
nature burning amazon
The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore. Larry Gelbart
nature children environment
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. Leslie Stephen
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 hands
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
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 moving science
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. Lord Acton
nature scene wildness
Wildness is my suiting scene. John Clare
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 compassion punishment
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
nature ambition tilt
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape.
nature mistake men
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
nature men goal
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
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.