Nature Quotes - Page 94

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Man must go back to nature for information.

Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

Man's Place in Nature.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

We shall not cease from exploration

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.