Nature Quotes - Page 143

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

Nature sometimes contrives to disconcert by reflecting the image of our creation.

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Now I can show you my true nature.

Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.