Nature Quotes - Page 121

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing

I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.