Nature Quotes - Page 111

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

My signature is the one that Hyun Joong hyung made for me five years ago, but I’m still using it.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.