Nature Quotes - Page 132

Nature did all things well

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.

The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.

To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.

I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.

There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual ... and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.