Nature Quotes - Page 145

I'm a big believer in human nature.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Use all of your senses.

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It's a good thing to learn more about nature in order to share this knowledge with children; it's even better if the adult and child learn about nature together. And it's a lot more fun.

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.