Nature Quotes - Page 117

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The course of Nature is the art of God

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

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

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future