Nature Quotes - Page 138

There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

I totally disagree with the belief that nature was only made for the use of people. Human beings are not the center of the universe, and, if they are to sustain themselves, it is vitally important for them to be awakened to how closely they are linked with the rest of nature.

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

For nature then to me was all in all.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.