Nature Quotes - Page 95

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.