Nature Quotes - Page 133

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

Green is the new black: make the environment part of your personal brand.

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

It's morning again, little hope, and the world's drying of with fresh-laundered sunshine. Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent