Nature Quotes
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.
For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.
