Nature Quotes - Page 99

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!