Nature Quotes

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one "less traveled by"-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Nature does nothing in vain.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. -Georgia O'Keeffe.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Nature is the art of God.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

In summer, the song sings itself.

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit—some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Choose only one master - Nature.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

I am two with nature.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

Men argue. Nature acts.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

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.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

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.

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the world? I would ask, What is the most. simple and general picture of the world that we can formulate that is not ruled by these experiments? I realized that medical and biological investigators were not attacking their problems the same way that theoretical physicists do, the way I had been in the habit of doing.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

The course of Nature is the art of God.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Trees are your best antiques

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

After rain comes fair weather.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts "” a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Nature has always had more force than education.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

My dream is to save them from nature.

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups — their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Nature is not human hearted.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man must go back to nature for information.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges — battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

A flower is an educated weed.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.