Nature Quotes - Page 124

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

He was the ultimate experiment in Nature Versus Nurture, and she imagined he must be engaged in a constant battle between what he was and what he wanted to be.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.